A review by jacquesdevilliers
Notes on the Cinematograph by Robert Bresson
4.0
What no human eye is capable of catching, no pencil, brush, pen of pinning down, your camera catches without knowing what it is, and pins it down with a machine's scrupulous indifference.
Your film will have the beauty, or the sadness, or what have you, that one finds in a town, in a countryside, in a house, and not the beauty, sadness, etc. that one finds in the photograph of a town, a countryside, or a house.
If, on the screen, the mechanism disappears and the phrases you have made them say, the gestures you have made them make, have become one with your models, with your film, with you - then a miracle.
To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.
Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.
Dig deep where you are. Don't slip off elsewhere.
Your film will have the beauty, or the sadness, or what have you, that one finds in a town, in a countryside, in a house, and not the beauty, sadness, etc. that one finds in the photograph of a town, a countryside, or a house.
If, on the screen, the mechanism disappears and the phrases you have made them say, the gestures you have made them make, have become one with your models, with your film, with you - then a miracle.
To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.
Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.
Dig deep where you are. Don't slip off elsewhere.