Dedicated in solidarity to Béla Tarr.
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During my stint with the San Francisco C.G. Jung Institute, I learned that the original context of the "symposium" was a strategic shift away from hierarchy to insure that all participants involved were on an equal plane, side by side, "rubbing shoulders" with each other. Not only is such parity a welcome approach to learning; but, its suggestion of sensorial pleasure by physical proximity (often with food or drink in hand) is an essential element. This is why I feel pleasure when I am learning from someone else, especially someone of such unique brilliance that—when I rub shoulders with them—I feel that some of their brilliance might rub off on me: like the pollen that is the rhyme and reason of cross-pollination.
Thus I am deeply grateful to the organizers of last weekend's Uc Berkeley international symposium on silent cinema—Cinema...
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During my stint with the San Francisco C.G. Jung Institute, I learned that the original context of the "symposium" was a strategic shift away from hierarchy to insure that all participants involved were on an equal plane, side by side, "rubbing shoulders" with each other. Not only is such parity a welcome approach to learning; but, its suggestion of sensorial pleasure by physical proximity (often with food or drink in hand) is an essential element. This is why I feel pleasure when I am learning from someone else, especially someone of such unique brilliance that—when I rub shoulders with them—I feel that some of their brilliance might rub off on me: like the pollen that is the rhyme and reason of cross-pollination.
Thus I am deeply grateful to the organizers of last weekend's Uc Berkeley international symposium on silent cinema—Cinema...
- 3/20/2011
- MUBI
My thanks to Danny Kasman at Mubi for publishing my brunch conversation with Thomas Elsaesser, recently conducted inbetween panels at the Uc Berkeley international symposium on silent cinema--Cinema Across Media: The 1920s. Equal thanks to Laura Horak and Althea Wasow for arranging the time for me to sit down with Elsaesser and, of course, to Thomas himself for being so generous with his time during such a busy conference. Along with the topic of the changing role of national cinemas in international film festivals, Elsaesser and I also discussed another subject of recent interest....
- 3/17/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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