excerpts from
the Patron Saint of Cinema
“Film loves light.”
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“Love the under-exposed and the over-exposed. They let you see beyond the expected.”
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“Say not that ‘The film did not come out.’ Film always comes out. Sometimes not the way you had expected.”
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“The Film has a dual nature. It possesses the physical existence of the Mortal Ribbon upon a reel. The Film is also the ethereal Image of the Light which exists beyond the physical.”
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“Film without Fear.”
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“Let thine Camera Lens discover lost Sights and unveil forgotten Mysteries and awaken the Imaginations of the audience whom others have enchanted into passivity. St. Tula’s Blessings shall make it so.”
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“If thy shot offend thee, cut it out.”
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“Those who have received St. Tula’s blessings may create their films as Michelangelo did his sculpture: By merely revealing the Image that already doth lay there within the Emulsion.”
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“Forget thee not to wind the spring.”
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“St. Tula loves your Film. Even if no one else does.”
These are great! This is probably a silly question, but have you ever read James Broughton's Seeing the Light? These excerpts greatly remind me of the positive, encouraging, and energizing spirit of Broughton. Hopefully I'll be able to scrounge up the $8 to buy a copy in the near future.
ReplyDeleteYes! -- I'm very much in the Broughton camp. The chapter "The Brotherhood of the Light" from "Seeing the Light" is likewise an ecclesiastical homage to cinema.
ReplyDeleteBut the real influence for "St Tula" was more of a protest against the writing on filmmaking that's full of "don't"s. "Don't do this. Don't do that."
Like Broughton, I wanted to encourage the "do"s, and naturally enough, the sayings of Patron Saint of the Bard College People's Film Department (St Tula) were all about the "do"s of filmmaking.
Cheers!