TALK, PETER DELPEUT
This is how you are fooled.
“Chance is the best director.” [Andre Bazin]
Maybe we should ask him
if we can put it in.
A little song in the head for
getting the pace.
Hand-cranking: you feel
there’s a human body behind the image.
Tried to get back
this whole emotional hand-cranking.
Traveling in a country you don’t know
someone who’s already dead meets you in the eye.
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 9-28-05 (12:26 AM)
Quarried from a question & answer session with the Dutch filmmaker after
his in-person screening of “Treasures of the Rijksmuseum” and “Cinema
Perdu” at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. I had been unable
to write while watching those films, largely because they lacked any verbal
or written language which one could attribute to the director. Even the Q
& A seemed likely to provide only an inscription, and I thought I was
merely taking notes about his aesthetics. Reading these notes the next day
I discovered a text responsive to some of the qualities I had admired in
Delpeut’s treatment of deteriorating found footage in his films “Lyrical
Nitrate” & “Diva Dolorosa”.
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