“The basic ingredient is the image. Let’s call it a diamond. An uncut diamond already gives off light, but improves when polished. Griffith cut facets into the diamond. It has the integrity of one element. The arrival of sound makes two elements. Sound and image. The basic ingredients are easy to grasp. In ceramics you’ve got clay and glaze. You fire it up in a kiln and ceramics emerge. The result is a new integrated element. The crisis in film is that so few have achieved this fusion. The only filmmaker who managed to do it was Vigo.”
-Henri Langlois from Le Fantôme d'Henri Langlois
Vigo's fusion:
A project of mine that's been in the works and plans for almost two years now will hopefully be unveiled on this here blod in the next month. I'll be posting a podcast of a mix of music from film with sometimes either a theme or with an accompanied spoken word history/trivia/connection of the chosen pieces. (This will probably depend on how much time I have at first!) This will be a work in progress, so please bear with me.
You have to wait about 45 seconds to get through the gay host intro, but here's more Vigo:
1 comment:
can't wait. Guess you saw the langlois doc.
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