The Cinema Cartography

A video essay.

Programme: 0:00 Introduction; 2:46 FORBIDDEN IDEAS; 23:08 FORBIDDEN IMAGES

Programme: 0:17 A Note by Luiza; 0:43 Part I; 3:19 Part II; 6:45 Part III

Art should be in contact with the eternal and the divine, however one comes to define that. In order to understand what my art must be to replicate that, I have also had to discuss and understand the immense displeasures I have with the world. I say that to remind myself that the art I hope to create must be in opposition to that. Creativity must be exactly that - creation. For with enough creation, we may be able to outdo the destruction.

Part 1 - Video Game Mechanics and Systems. Part 2 - The Artistry of Games.

"The tragic and crucial difference is that if art can stimulate emotions and ideas, mass-appeal cinema, because of its easy, irresistible effect, extinguishes all traces of thought and feeling irrevocably. People cease to feel any need for the beautiful or the spiritual, and consume films like bottles of Coca-Cola." - Andrei Tarkovsky

0:00 Introduction; 2:39 PART I - History; 13:50 PART 2 - The Golden Age; 31:14 PART 3 - Legacy

Today Lewis and Luiza discuss the 2002 Brazilian masterpiece City of God (Cidade de Deus). A conversation of one person's obsession with the film becoming more enlightened after marrying the other who had a parallel experience with the film in question.

A deep look into Abel Gance's unparalleled 1927 masterpiece; Napoleon.