Favorite quote from Jesse Ataide:
" For three consecutive Sundays
in June my boyfriend and I made a pilgrimage
to Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive for the church-like experience of Nathaniel
Dorsky screening and then holding forth on the mesmerizing short films he has
made during the last decade or so, and the loving, almost anthropomorphized
descriptions he gave of the film stock he used to make each of them implicitly
voiced cinema’s biggest issue of 2012 that no one seems to really want to talk
about: that for all of the multiplicity digital formats seem to promise us as
viewers, the dwindling availability of film stock as well as the equipment,
expertise and venues able to project film prints means we are losing an
important and vital way of experiencing and understanding cinema. "
I like this quote very much, because Thailand also has the problem
of "the dwindling availability of venues able to project film
prints". In the World Film Festival of Bangkok in November 2012, we found
that some films in 35mm format were very "blurred", and the movie
theatre staff explained that the films would not be blurred if they were shown
digitally, instead of using film prints. That means this movie theatre no
longer knows how to project film prints.
The photo is from THE RETURN (2011, Nathaniel Dorsky).
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