In June, Dis Vior will publish Parts 2 and 3 of Raul Ruiz's Poetics of Cinema. I have been waiting a long time for this. Part 1, which I dip into frequently for inspiration, is a series of "theoretical/narrative discourses" that point the way towards a new practice of cinema, favoring the hand-crafted, combinatory and shamanic - all very relevant to vlogging and distributed cinema. Part 2 (Serious Play) is "made up of parodies and conceptaul interpolations. It proposes a working model for the writing of films." And Part 3 (Methods) is "composed of exercises and formulae, and is intended as a method of filmaking." (from the Preface of Part 1)
I'm evoking a cinema that has renounced its narrative capacity, its hypnotic power of ravishment, preferring to turn back on itself and let loose a proliferating series of circular images, narrative "off-screens" that profit from the already-seen. All this in order to pluralize narrative sequences, which then reveal their capacity to give birth to an unheard-of form of cinematographic narration, its rules still awaiting invention, its poetics still awaiting discovery." - Raul Ruiz
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i too am looking forward to this book. the first volume travels with me everywhere. any idea when it's getting released or if it's on the shelf in the sf area? for that matter, what's the best bookstore in town for cinema books? i'm visiting the city for two months...
Posted by: michael mills | July 25, 2006 11:05 AM