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afrosonics:

What I do in my films, is very, oh I think very distinctively. They are the films of a woman, and I think that their characteristic time quality is the time quality of a woman. I think that the strength of men is their great sense of immediacy, they are a now creature. And a woman has strength to wait, because she’s had to wait. She has to wait 9 months for the concept of a child. Time is built into her body in the sense of becomingness, and she sees everything in terms of it being in the stage of becoming. She raises a child, knowing now what it is at any moment but seeing always the person that it will become. Her whole life from her very beginning, built into her is the sense of becoming. Now, in any time for this is a very important sense, I think that my films putting as much stress as they do on the constant metamorphosis…

I am not greedy, I do not seek to posses the major portion of your days… I am content if, on those occasions whose truth can be stated only by poetry…

Their goddess of love, is a, very fascinating and compels idea. She is in fact the goddess of all the luxuries which are not essential to survival. She is the goddess of love, which, unlike sex, is not essential to propagation. She is the muse of the arts. Now man can live without it, but he doesn’t very much live as man. It is strange that one would have to go to an apparently primitive culture, such as Haiti, to find an understanding in such exalted terms, of what the essential, feminine, not female , feminine role might conceivably be. Every which is human, everything which is more than that which is necessary. Taken from this point of view, there is no reason in the world, why woman shouldn’t be artists, and very fine ones.

Just remember that motion picture is a time form. Just as the telescope reveals the structure of matter in a way that the unaided eye can never see it. So, slow motion reveals the structure of motion, events that occur rapidly, so that they seem a continuous flux, are revealed in slow motion to be full of pulsations and agonies and indecisions and repetitions.

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