Word: light
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...second glance, so unsettling (where do they lead? why are they empty?). By pausing to reconsider the banality of these and other objects, edifices and locations, he challenges and transcends the literal gaze. Thus, a gridded ceiling, shot at such an angle as to show only the aureoles of light created by the implied light bulbs, becomes an immense tapestry of light and shadow--something more like a photographic Victor Vasarely image than a ceiling. Most remarkable of all is Gursky's Untitled, 1993, in which the vaguely modulated picture surface resolves into an expanse of well-tread, nubby carpet...
...Morris says. "I mean, each of the stories had themes that interest me, but the idea of making them into one film was the underlying idea." The director's emphasis on content over, or at least preceding form, does not date to his beginnings as a filmmaker. Unlike the light and audience-driven fare that has become the norm in movie theatres, Morris' work is guided more by his own curiosity than by a stylistic or commercial vocabulary...
...Given his focus on communicating ideas and questioning the audience, it is surprising to note that Errol Morris considers his work to be patently anti-vrit. "I have nothing wrong with cinema vrit as a style," he says. "That's fine-handheld cameras, available light... why not? The crazy thing is to think that style guarantees truth, that there's a truth machine, like a meat grinder. That if you put in the right ingredients, that somehow, magically, truth results. I mean, that's nuts. Even a moment of reflection tells you how deeply wrong that...
...objects and books must be contiguous, he creates a need for an immediately adjacent library that does not exist. Few scholars worldwide have such an ideal arrangement. And regardless, who wouldn't prefer to walk through a garden to consult their sources in an above ground library with natural light...
...Give the customers dilated pupils, white sclera, and lots of it. With a stroke of perverse genius (excuse the term), Rembrandt has done the opposite, painting Balaam's eyes as dark crevices. For this is, after all, the moment _before_ God opens those eyes to the angel and the light of truth...