The odyssey of a film-maker (1960)

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Record Details:

Title:
The odyssey of a film-maker
Date:
1960
Publisher:
Urbana : Beta Phi Mu
Volume:
The odyssey of a film-maker
Leaf #:
00063
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Biography
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 15, 2025
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art can now come to us in a mass medium for a machine age through the mediation of a machine. "On the spiritual plane, cinema is an invention every whit as important as on the material plane, the freeing of nuclear energy."7 Love's method is surrender, the giving up of the self to that which is greater than the self, in order that the greater, the beyond, may come through. Surrender is the discipline also of the scientist, his humility, his search into the nature of things. Robert Flaherty has been called a mystic. Lillian Gish likened him to the poet Blake. John Grierson said his attitude to the camera was that of a mystic. Robert Flaherty was a mystic of the modern age ; in his approach to a powerful machine he took the scientist's discipline of "surrender to the material and surrender to the tool" in order to come to the mystic's ecstasy and delight, and to his wisdom. 7. Debrix, Jean: Cinema and Poetry. In The Art of the Cinema. (Yale French Studies, no. 17) New Haven, Payne & Lane, Summer 1956, p. 101. 43