Ciao!
Having freshly come back from Rome, I
am tempted say that the world is beautiful as long as we have Fellini
(and those perfectly-groomed men in tailor-made suits!).
Speaking of Fellini, in the same year
when Fellini's Casanova (1976) came out, the world also got to
see Parviz Kimiavi's The Garden of Stones (1976) and P Like
Pelican (1976). They are wonderful cinematic discovery which I
made at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt recently, where both films
were finally rendered justice on the auditorium's big screen. My
nostalgia for the spirit of filmmaking of that time aside, they both
demonstrate complexity and multifacetedness within a rather
straightforward narrative structure – at the same time mysticism
and philosophy, sight and sound, sanity and insanity. Their grainy
texture and anti-horizontal direction seem to find contemporary
resonance in Philippe Grandieux's White Epilepsy (2012), yet
the latter's experimentation is somewhat overshadowed by the former's
ethnographic and humanistic insight, I think.
I don't think you explained much about
your choice of Humanity of Paper Balloons and your fondness for Café
Lumière? I am very intrigued. At the moment I am reading You Are
Not A Gadget - in fact, this blog post could have been written by
a robot!
