{410}{448}Be sure to have used {453}{498}all that is communicated {503}{557}by immobility and silence. {1400}{1493}What has passed by the cinema|and is still marked by it {1498}{1549}can no longer enter elsewhere. {1957}{2048}But concerning me, first of all.|Concerning my story: {2064}{2120}What do I have to do with all this? {2141}{2179}All this light? {2199}{2235}All this darkness? {3053}{3161}Sometimes at night|someone whispers in my room. {3184}{3221}I shut off the television, {3254}{3307}but the whispering continues. {3343}{3418}Is it the wind or is it my ancestors? {6996}{7074}History of solitude,|solitude of history. {7090}{7130}Cinema projected {7135}{7206}and people saw|that the world was there. {7211}{7279}A world still almost without a history, {7289}{7339}but a world that tells stories. {7375}{7431}But instead of uncertainty, {7436}{7503}in order to establish|idea and sensation, {7508}{7599}the two great stories|were sex and death. {10638}{10695}Stories of beauty, in short. {10700}{10768}Beauty, make-up... {10782}{10884}Cinema is not part|of the communications industry {10889}{10937}or entertainment. {10943}{11027}It is part of cosmetics,|the industry of masks. {12200}{12279}A minor branch of the industry of lies. {14410}{14469}Histories of cinema. {14789}{14848}It boils down to entertainment. {14853}{14915}It can't be explained otherwise. {14920}{14975}Succeeding photography, {14980}{15063}cinema always wanted|to be realer than real life. {15274}{15357}Neither art, nor technique... {16349}{16405}<i>Murderers and Thieves,</i> {16420}{16464}Guitry's last film. {16482}{16528}Soon, every morning, {16533}{16579}he'll no longer have to go {16584}{16627}to the markets of lies. {16645}{16726}Soon, he'll no longer happily take sides {16731}{16770}with the vendors. {16885}{16956}I recorded this sentence of Brecht's. {16964}{17045}I asked Lang to say it to Bardot. {17068}{17142}<i>I called the film Contempt.</i> {20424}{20497}The story begins with two brothers. {20522}{20581}Their name|could have been Lampshade, {20586}{20629}but it was Lumi?re. {20822}{20887}Each the spitting image of the other. {20915}{21011}Since then,|you need two reels to make movies. {21035}{21112}One fills up as the other empties. {21297}{21343}As if by chance, in video, {21359}{21433}the left reel is called the "slave" {21441}{21503}and the right, the "master". {22069}{22161}For one last time,|the dark gathers its strength {22174}{22218}to conquer the light. {22238}{22328}But it is in the back|that light will strike dark. {22589}{22637}A movie projector {22642}{22709}is forced to remember the camera. {22723}{22794}Cinema is only an industry of escapism {22805}{22866}because it is the only place {22871}{22925}where memory is slave. {25749}{25819}Successor of photography, yes. {25846}{25903}But by succeeding this history, {25908}{26034}cinema inherited not only its rights|to reproduce a piece of reality, {26062}{26119}but also its duties. {26136}{26189}It succeeded Zola, {26214}{26278}<i>but not L'Assommoir|or La B?te Humaine.</i> {26294}{26385}A family album, first of all:|Proust and Manet. {27573}{27643}From the beginning to the end|of this book {27648}{27726}in which men desperately raped Nature {27731}{27802}to sow the seeds|of the power of their fiction, {27807}{27919}to go from Giotto to Matisse,|from Madame de la Fayette to Faulkner, {27924}{28028}took one fifth of the time|that the first train needed {28033}{28081}to become the TGV. {28949}{29059}Cinema, like Christianity,|is not founded on historical truth. {29313}{29376}It supplies us with a story|and says: {29381}{29418}Now, believe! {29423}{29529}Not: Have faith in this story|as you do in History, {29534}{29592}but: Believe, come what may. {29597}{29666}It is a life-Iong task. {29681}{29800}You have a story here.|Don't treat it like history. {30032}{30103}Give it a place of its own|in your life. {37893}{37984}Cinema has never been an art, {37989}{38041}and even less a technique. {38074}{38179}<i>From L'Arriv?e du train en gare|to Rio Bravo,</i> {38196}{38265}the camera hasn't changed much. {38741}{38855}The Platinum Panavision|is less perfect than the Debrie 7 {38872}{38957}which Gide's nephew took to Congo. {40806}{40853}<i>White Shadows</i> {42439}{42506}Technicians will say it's not true, {42511}{42569}but remember that the 19th century {42595}{42657}which invented every technique {42662}{42723}also invented stupidity. {42728}{42829}And that Madame Bovary,|before becoming a porn cassette, {42834}{42873}grew up with the telegraph. {43921}{43993}Not a technique, not even an art. {44141}{44196}An art without a future {44201}{44259}kindly warned the two brothers. {46794}{46893}Less than 100 years later,|we see that they were right. {46911}{46997}Television has made|L?on Gaumont's dream come true {47002}{47101}- bringing the world|into the poorest bedrooms - {47122}{47182}by reducing the giant sky|of the shepherds {47187}{47238}to the level of Tom Thumb. {47541}{47607}Afterwards, we misunderstood them. {47612}{47649}They said "no future". {47686}{47749}That is, an art in the present. {47759}{47800}An art which gives {47818}{47876}and which receives before giving. {47887}{47952}Let us say: Child's play. {47991}{48040}The disciples of Saint-Simon. {48045}{48105}Who was their master? {48125}{48156}Enfantin. {48173}{48214}Baron Enfantin. {48227}{48278}They dreamt of the Orient, {48283}{48367}but didn't call it|Silk Road or Rum Route. {48372}{48437}They called it the rail road {48442}{48558}because, en route, the dream|hardened and became mechanized. {51659}{51719}The twilight of the 19th century. {51724}{51791}The beginning of public transport. {51949}{51992}The dawn of the 20th century. {51997}{52074}The beginning|of the treatment of hysteria. {52079}{52153}Charcot opening the door to dreams|to Freud. {52180}{52236}But finding the key was up to him. {52371}{52491}But what is the difference|between Lilian Gish on her ice floe {52496}{52542}and Augustine at Salpetri?re? {53128}{53167}Something even worse {53172}{53237}is presaged|by the default of God. {53294}{53378}Not only have the gods|and the god fled, {53418}{53476}but the divine radiance {53481}{53550}has gone out|in the world's history. {53629}{53721}The time of the world's night|is the time of distress {53737}{53788}because it becomes ever narrower. {53793}{53876}Afterwards, all it will take|is a world war or two {53881}{53918}to pervert this child's play... {53923}{53963}...It has become so narrow {53998}{54084}that it can no longer discern|the default of God {54089}{54121}as a default. {54905}{54957}...and for television to become {54962}{55007}this stupid, sad adult {55012}{55076}who refuses to see the hole|which bore it {55093}{55162}and which confines itself|to childishness. {55619}{55651}Because... {55678}{55733}this is what happened: {55744}{55795}At the dawn of the 20th century {55800}{55868}techniques decided to reproduce life. {55879}{55959}So photography and cinema|were invented. {55975}{56021}But morality was still strong {56026}{56126}and they were preparing|to strip reality of its identity, {56137}{56201}so they began mourning this murder. {56215}{56310}It is with the colors of mourning,|black and white, {56319}{56397}that the cin?matographe|came into existence. {59687}{59771}Poets are mortals who, {59798}{59853}singing earnestly, {59873}{59952}sense the trace of the fugitive gods, {59957}{60013}stay in these tracks {60023}{60082}and trace for the mortals, {60087}{60178}their brothers,|the way toward the turning. {60477}{60599}But who among mortals|can trace such a track? {60679}{60795}Traces are often hard to behold {60834}{60880}and are always {60910}{61009}the legacy of an assignation|that is barely felt. {61075}{61144}To be a poet in times of distress {61169}{61222}means: Singing, {61295}{61401}to attend to the trace|of the fugitive gods.
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