Film and Culture

Individuals who put a lot of their time and effort into a craft often find asking themselves: why? Why tell stories in a visual way? Why imagine or recreate something from the real world, where objectivity is inherent, and craft it into a story with a camera or a computer?

The answer best explains itself in negative form. Without the potential to see life on a screen, we only have real life as it is. We see people walking and scratching their heads and living and dying and turning against one another. In the objective real world, people from around the world remain in their separate bins, isolated from the other flavors of man-kind and labeled appropriately. The objective outside world is what it is.

Any film, documentary or fiction, scoops reality out of its earthly dish and gently dumps it onto a nice neat screen. It shapes it with narrative form, a form which through its mere structure parallels the loss of Eden, the loss of iden... more