Illiterate Magazine

Not a word for avant-garde

“Thus, realism was not an attempt to authentically capture reality but an attempt to use art to mimic it so effectively that the viewer would be pulled in without thinking about it” Patricia Aufderheide

Modern movie makers care about film like hunters. They wish only to capture moments of reality. It is a vacant use of moving images. Blindly, they ignore a hundred years of film history that has determined this pursuit benign: reality cannot be caught.

Remember: hunters kill the game they seek and display only its corpse. Narrative film makers obliterate the film medium by using everything they can to hide it.