cinematic perfection

I'll be the first to admit I complain about film all the time. Unfortunately, the complex that comes along with a film studies degree is to find fault in just about everything you see. But in the spirit of the New Wave I'm going to take a positive look into cinematic perfection.

Cinema is able to captivate me because of it's deliberately clashing identities. It combines different facets of art, audience and industry in a matter of often less than two hours time. We are dealing with an entirely unique medium. Something that has the power to enhance, embrace and utilize the center point in which it sits. So, in order to explain myself, I'll give you my recipe:

Great film, to me, is when art meets industry and form meets content.

This intersection between technique, creativity, marketing and narrative is what inspires me to study film. Film has the power to unite and utilize seemingly opposing forces. We can have film that is art and commodity. One that brings about narrative and technique to create a new meaning; a cinematic moment. Something living in between reality and fantasy. Film falls into the definitive gaps; creating an understanding of the world and entertainment by blurring our notions of absolute categorization.

Film can entertain the masses and be an artistic masterpiece. Film can both showcase and explore the realms of reality and create, edit, and manipulate our perceptions of said reality. Film can bring about narrative and technique to create new meaning outside of physical or literary capabilities.

And in celebration of this union, I dedicate my blog to the exploration of this unique medium. With hope that I can examine the films that do bring about intersecting perfection: cinematic harmony.