Cinema Gardens
Listening to the many great speakers on the Seminars About Long Term Thinking podcast. Here is Brian Eno speaking with Sims creator Will Wright about asynchronous loops:
“Instead of trying to design a piece from the top down, which is what you normally think of as composition – you know, you sort of build it piece by piece like an architect makes a building – this is more like a gardener. You have a seed, you plant it and see what happens.”
- Brian Eno
- Brian Eno
Cinema has its monuments. It is time to harness forces and make cinema gardens. For me anyway, this shift has been liberating. Less about the creator, more about the discovering. Ambient and serial music (esp. Cage, Eno, Reich, Glass), generative literature such as OuLiPo ( esp. Queneau and Perec) are the models. Of course, there is now a history of generative video practice which I am just discovering. Not as easy to find, because many pieces are not on the net, nor available on DVD.
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