Healing is a challenge in life. It's a victim's sole obligation. By healing, you resist oppression. But when I'm hurt over and over again, I forget the wounds that rule my life. Forgotten wounds can't be healed. So I film to heal. I know they may knock at my door at any moment. But I'll just keep filming. It helps me confront life. And survive.by Emad Burnat
update: i already figured out a name for the set. you can go check it here.
some time ago I was going through some photos of mine, wanting to add them to my portfolio...
but since I've been organizing all my photos by titles I couldn't quiet figure out what name to give to this set.
I thought about peeping tom but it doesn't sound right...
here's the quote i was thinking about using along with the title, and some of the photos to give you an idea of what the set would have. you can also go visit my portfolio to see what i have so far.
but since I've been organizing all my photos by titles I couldn't quiet figure out what name to give to this set.
I thought about peeping tom but it doesn't sound right...
here's the quote i was thinking about using along with the title, and some of the photos to give you an idea of what the set would have. you can also go visit my portfolio to see what i have so far.
though I felt like a voyeur,
my eyes were riveted to the scene
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
Art can't fix anything. It can just observe and portray. What's important is that it becomes an object, a thing you can see and talk about and refer to. A film is an object around which you can have a debate, more so than the incident itself. It's someone's view of an incident, an advanced starting point.
he's a simple man:
I don’t need 20 pairs of shoes. I have a car that I've had for 12 years. It's fine, I enjoy life and things are very basic. I don't have social networks in the Internet for example. I don't even have a cell phone. I'm probably the last holdout. (...) I just don't want to be available all the time. I love to connect with people but in a more fundamental way. I never go to parties, but I invite friends and I cook for them. We sit around a table, maximum 6 people, because if there are more people there is no space around the table. And when we speak to each other, everyone speaks about the same topic. Whereas when you are at a party, there are 200 people and loud music and in each corner there is a different topic, and small talk.
he said people cannot read:
Most are illiterates, even though they know how to combine letters and make phrases and so on. I say: Consuming the Internet, TV, and even cinema makes you lose the world. Only by reading can you gain the world.
and he said this about Godard:
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
he inspires me both with his maxims about cinema:
There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.
and about life itself:
Follow your vision. Form secretive rogue cells everywhere. At the same time, be not afraid of solitude.
by Ken
Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe', and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X
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