Less Light
I have been waiting months for my delvery of Ruiz's Poetics of Cinema 2. Just found out that it will not be out until next March.
A few weeks ago, we traveled up north to some lava caves. Three flights of stairs into darkness and then a 1/5 mile tunnel. All with flashlights. My camera broke just before entering the cave and for the walk in the darkness, I kept thinking about not having my camera. Why? What besides echoing voices would I have captured?
Hunting images in the dark.
"Let no one be mistaken about this, a healthy pessimism may be better than a suicidal optimism. '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!'." Raoul Ruiz