A director never creates alone. A film is a chain of dialogues.
AI is the newest one. Not a shortcut around the room — a new channel in it. Honoured to argue this at Contemporary Philosophical Issues, 26 June, Rijeka — in serious company.
Filmmaker David Lynch's Diagram for Transcendental Consciousness is one of the greatest, easiest to understand explanations for how our reality is made of MIND first, MATTER second.
I promise this is genuinely worth your time.
It's fantastic.
Two frames.Same situation.60 years apart.Forman 1965.
Ozon, 2025.Almost the same image —but not the same cinema.Forman is lighter, more precise, more elegant.He suggests rather than shows.
Cinema doesn’t always move forward.Sometimes it forgets.
Still learning from the masters.
How Leo Tolstoy Found His Purpose: “…no matter what I take to be life’s source, I invariably arrive at the conclusion that the purpose of our human existence is to afford a maximum of help towards the universal development of everything that exists.”
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Film editing magic from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. Stuntman Sergio Mioni is already in the truck cab holding his cocked leg as Harrison Ford sells getting kicked. Sneaky effective edit because of the kinetic energy from the first shot of Sergio swinging into the truck window. Boom!
Some of the Heart-Breaking Moments caught on camera ~ A Thread 🧵
1. Lepa Radić was a 17-year-old freedom fighter who was executed by the Germans in 1943.
Atheism left an empty space
Secular religion took its place
But left the people in despair
Childless hedonism sans care
Maybe religion’s not so bad
To keep you from being sad