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Falling Man
Paul Rotha, the great filmmaker and critic, once said that a documentary film must, above all, reflect the problems and realities of its times. “It cannot regret the past,” he continued. “In no sense is documentary a historical reconstruction and attempts to make it so are destined to failure. Rather it is contemporary fact and event expressed in relation to human associations.”
Your Dreams Were Your Ticket Out
Sometimes less is more. Some people say that quiet is the new loud. Often the best art is made by artists who have the most modest agendas.
Blame It on Holland Cotter
I blame it all on Holland Cotter.
Tales of Grizzled Warriors
But there from the wise Empress’s lips,
Like a sun’s ray, a smile has broken:
Before her stands a golden-curled youth.
Frolicking midst the throng of warriors,
First he lifts up the heavy sword,
Then takes from them the battle helmet,
Then, trembling in rapture, he attends
To the tales of grizzled warriors.
–lines from “A Vision” by Kondratyj Ryleev (1795-1826)
November Song
It’s a gray November;
The leaves have all turned brown,
And all the birds of summer
Are packing up to leave town.
Drizzly gray November,
The year is winding down,
And in the sky the sun pales like an ember…
And so it goes –
The year draws to a close
Another year’s beginning.
And so it goes –
It won’t be long now, I suppose
‘Til I must sing my own November song.
