> Dejan, your comments in your long post were terrific and fascinating,
> but on this point you are 'bending the truth' a little bit !! If you're
> talking about the European Graduate School in Switzerland, as I think
> you are, that is not 'the media school of Zizek', and about a hundred
> different luminaries (Zizek included) blow in and out of the place to
> offer their seminars! You might just as well say Lynch is 'in the
> school of Badiou and Nancy', or that he's hanging out discoursing with
> Claire Denis and Akerman, because they are all on the school's
> staff/guest list! The fact is - I don't think this is a controversial
> statement - Lynch is no intellectual; he's the Instinctive Artist right
> down the line, and it works for him. His films are deep, but they're
> not 'conceptual' in the way some others are. As to the way we choose to
> read them, that's our responsibility, not his!
>
> Adrian
Thank you for that clarification, Adrian - I thought
the school was founded by Zizek, and attended by psychoanalytically-inclined
auteurs eg Lynch and Almodovar.
But I maintain a distance from the idea of a fully ''instinctual''
filmmaker. Being a filmmaker myself, I know that one usually
talks about ''instinct'' for the DVD Extras, while the making of a film
involves such meticulous planning, endless analysis and
organization, that it can hardly be considered an entirely instinctual
affair - even as we might want to maintain that romantic image
for the viewer's enjoyment. I tend to notice that BOTH the intellect
and the feelings are involved.
Also remember that Lynch has always been a supreme
pasticheur (starting round Blue Velvet, where he developed a
post-modern language of quotations par excellance), and in pastiche,
I think the process is not as spontaneous as instinct.
Furthermore the suggestion that philosophy and the creative
process cannot be married is a little strained for me ...I am reminded of
the old discussion about the nature of intuititon - is intuition not
just another word for short-hand perception, an abbreviated version
thus of philosophical analysis?
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