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| Jan De Cock |
From the website: The director who made the strongest impression on me is Jean-Luc Godard. I watched all of his films. Unquestionably, he contributed to my way of making art. In his films it is the form that thinks. It is not the thought that constructs form. Another luminary is Eadweard Muybridge. He is a photographer who worked primarily with the ideas of the motion picture. Aspects of sequence and repetition are present in his work. Many art philosophers, like Hubert Damisch, consider cinema the art form that connects all the others.3 I agree with them. In one of his texts, Edwin Carels even poses the question, "What is the most important thing that remains: the images or a way of looking?"4 In time we will come to consider Godard's 260-minute Histoire(s) du cinéma—a soaring collage of film clips and stills, music fragments, sound effects, on-screen text, and voice-over—to be more important in the formulation of twentieth-century culture than Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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