STABILITY OF THE FRAME
Free from shackles and blinkers of Holly / Bolly / Tolly /
whistling , damp, dark & rotting woods we may feel lost & scared unless
we have some classical re-assurance of firm grounds under our feet. Anybody who
looks through a motion picture camera or a Director’s View-finder for that
matter, is confronted by a frame. Most people, however, are un-aware of it as
they are too busy peering at the scene, moving the camera this way & that
or tweaking the accelerating pedal zoom.
Anybody with a nodding acquaintance with the Arts, however, will readily
agree that historically “Frame” has forever been a static, solid boundary of a
painting or lately still-photograph. Motion Picture in a sweeping, revolutionary
gesture, “Moved the Frame Itself” ... as
if it were. This amounts to a fracture of a certain “Tradition” in the Arts.
The Proscenium & Painting share certain “Aspect Ratios” with the 9:16 aspect
ratio of film frame, but they didn’t move about freely as Film Frame could. So,
what I am suggesting is that we take a deep breath & a serious view of this
historic disjunction before we start panning & tilting wildly on our
fluid-heads. This will give us a sense of stability & connection with the
Arts; it will help to ground us firmly in a creative field. It will give rise
to editorial and ‘cutting possibilities’ which are integral to Film Form and
thus, help to advance notions of visual articulation.
Rahatavalokit
Caca250
Please try not to deliberately misinterpret, misunderstand or falsify the spirit in which the statement above, viz: "Free from the shackles and blinkers of Holly / Bolly / Tolly ..." is made.
ReplyDeleteIt's connotations are directly linked to the most important Opening Point # 01 from "NOTES ON CINEMATOGRAPHY" by Robert Bresson; the unchallenged Philosopher of Cinema, to date. Some selected excerpts are available within this corpus for ready reference of the skeptic.
This same 'human tendency' of falling into convenient habits is so bitterly criticized by J. Krishnamurti who calls it, "Our Conditioning".