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December 01, 2007
Carlos Reygadas on the opening shot of Silent Light
"I was at the coast in Vizcaya in the Basque Country writing for three days. I had everything apart from the opening and closing scenes, I was listening to Sigur Rós before going to bed, the computer was in front of me, and the screensaver came on. I have this cosmic screensaver, a picture of stars moving out of the frame very, very slowly. I looked at that magnificent space landscape with the music of Sigur Rós playing and I thought the movie had to open like that.' You get the impression from watching Reygadas' films that if you were to isolate any frame, it would make a great photo. 'I have an aversion to photography,' Reygadas muses. 'I love it in cinema, and I like to see other people's photographs, but I don't like the idea of stopping to take a photo. I hate social photos. I hate photos of myself. I hate photos that capture moments of joy. Photographs are the true image of death. Whenever I see a person in a photograph I think of them as dead.'" [Site; Portrait.]
Posted by Ray Pride at December 1, 2007 05:56 PM
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