James Blake - ??? (by unitedgain)
Posted 2 months ago
How do you respond to the fact that your films are often seen as metaphysical?
We don’t think about metaphysics or any philosophical speculation because a film is concrete. We use a camera and shoot scenes. If you are a writer you have paper and can write a lot of things about this table. But if you are a film-maker you can just show this table. You can see immediately the kind of table and how interesting it is, but it is still only a table. That is the reason why I don’t understand someone talking about philosophical or metaphysical things. No, it’s not true. Please, just watch the movie; just listen to your heart. Please, trust your eyes: everything is very clear and very simple. Watch. That’s important. Don’t think about it too much. Everyone can understand it if they don’t complicate it. It’s just a simple film. It’s a very primitive language. Our writer, Krasznahorkai, he doesn’t understand why we use this very primitive thing which is a film. He can write thirty pages about this table. Everybody has a fantasy and everybody can imagine a table, but if I show you it using the very primitive language of film it is only ever a table.
Kinoeye | Hungarian film: Bela Tarr interviewed
Posted 2 months ago
All cinema? You just don’t feel a part of that?
No, that is the reason why I told you something about a kind of narration. For me, when I see something at the cinema it is always full of shit. This is a meaningful question. The difference is: how we go to the people, how we watch the people, how we work with our actors, that is absolutely different. That’s the reason why I Iike it – to do these things. Because on the other hand, the making of movies is very, very boring. We just have the script, but we never use it during the shooting. We have some actors, but we don’t use actors that behave like actors. We work with them like friends or work with them using only their personalities. For me, the personality of the actors is always interesting. In this case, it doesn’t matter whether you work with professional or non-professional actors.
Kinoeye | Hungarian film: Bela Tarr interviewed
Posted 2 months ago
Could you talk a little about the reason behind your very long takes? What can I tell you about this generally? The people of this generation know information-cut, information-cut, information-cut. They can follow the logic of it, the logic of the story, but they don’t follow the logic of life. Because I see the story as only just a dimension of life, because we have a lot of other things. We have time, we have landscapes, we have meta-communications, all of which are not verbal information. If you watch the news it is just talking, cutting, maybe some action and afterwards talking, action, talking. For us, the film is a bit different.
Kinoeye | Hungarian film: Bela Tarr interviewed
Posted 2 months ago
