Death of the Image Vol. 3: Film After Fiction

"For there are films which begin and end, which have a beginning and an ending, which conduct a story through from its initial premise until everything has been restored to peace and order, and there have been deaths, a marriage or a revelation.
And there are the films quite unlike this, which recede into time like rivers to the sea; and which offer us only the most banal of closing images: rivers flowing, crowds, armies, shadows passing, curtains falling in perpetuity, a girl dancing till the end of time.
It is then up to us, in silence, to prolong this movement that has returned to secrecy, this hidden arc that has buried itself beneath the earth again; we have not finished with it yet."
Jacques Rivette, Letter on Rossellini


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Films:
Two Years at Sea
Stemple Pass
Drift
Human Flowers of Flesh
Crosscurrent
Red Moon Tide
Last and First Men
Tokyo Blood
I Know Where I'm Going

"Films grow like seeds when your gaze waters them lovingly." - Lois Patiño


0:00 Waiting For Something To Happen
12:01 Method (I)
14:02 Like Rivers To The Sea
21:07 Method (II)
24:07 Till The End Of Time
37:59 Reflections