UNDERSTANDING how RELIGION and RITUAL and SUPERSTITION works

by Terry 22 Replies latest jw friends

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  Terry

  Tarkovsky developed a theory of cinema that he called "sculpting in time". By this he meant that the unique characteristic of cinema as a medium was to take our experience of time and alter it. Unedited movie footage transcribes time in real time. (The speedy jump-cutting style that is prevalent in music videos and many Hollywood movies today (2007), by contrast, overrides any sense of time by imposing the editor's viewpoint.) By using long takes and few cuts in his films, he aimed to give the viewers a sense of time passing, time lost, and the relationship of one moment in time to another.

  I'm not making this up....

  I once sat in a restaurant in Los Angeles listening to a guy who looked exactly like Tarkovsky explain to his female companion the theory of "sculpting in time" for almost an hour. How I wished at the time I'd had an editor handy!!
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  Narkissos

  Interesting, and this connects nicely with our discussion on the other thread about being or identity (more exactly quiddity, "whatness") and time.

  Here I was more referring to his focus on ritual (presentin all his movies, but particularly explicit, I think, in The Sacrifice, Stalker and Nostalghia).
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  Terry

  Interesting, and this connects nicely with our discussion on the other thread about being or identity (more exactly quiddity, "whatness") and time.

  Here I was more referring to his focus on ritual (presentin all his movies, but particularly explicit, I think, in The Sacrifice, Stalker and Nostalghia).

  I find "real time" in films much more compelling, by the way. There is a TV series in the U.S. called 24 which (more or less) takes place in real time. Ever see an episode?