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“The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.”
—Marcel Proust
Observations on the Long Take →
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Author(s): Pier Paolo Pasolini, Norman MacAfee, Craig Owens
Source: October, Vol. 13, (Summer, 1980), pp. 3-6
Published by: The MIT Press
The substance of cinema is therefore an endless long take, as is reality to our
senses for as long as we are able to see and feel (a long take that ends with the end
of our lives); and this long take is nothing but the reproduction of the language of
reality. In other words it is the reproduction of the present.
