lukacs: November 2012

Friday, November 16, 2012

My Dad is 100 Years Old (2005)

With Isabella Rossellini as her father, herself, Hitchcock, Chaplin, Fellini. A Guy Maddin film about cinema and the deconstruction of the father-director through the bellybutton.

Copyright is invalid: intellectual property is a legal fiction created by the state. Please take whatever you want from here, I will take it from you also. As a director once said:

"Nothing is original. Steal from anything that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do, your work and theft will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable, originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery; celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean Luc Godard said: It’s not where you take things from, it’s where you take them to." (Jim Jarmusch)

Friday, November 16, 2012

My Dad is 100 Years Old (2005)

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