Poetics of Cinema 2

By Raúl Ruiz

"Eleven years separate these lines from the first part of my Poetics of Cinema. Meanwhile the world has changed and cinema with it. Poetics of Cinema, 1 had much of a call to arms about it. What I write today is rather more of a consolatio philosophica. However, let no one be mistaken about this, a healthy pessimism may be better than a suicidal optimism." Following his research in Poetics of Cinema, 1 on new narrative models as tools for apprehending a fast-shifting world, Ruiz makes an appeal for an entirely new way of filming, writing and conceiving the image. 'Light, more light, ' were Goethe's last words as he died. 'Less light, less light, ' Orson Welles cried repeatedly on a set--the one and only time I saw him. In today's cinema (and in today's world) there is too much light. It is time to return to the shadows. So, about turn! And back to the caverns!"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2914563256
• ISBN13: 9782914563253
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Dis Voir Editions
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 8.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher