tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833411083213663905.post8079922322248378369..comments2023-10-25T03:20:00.692-07:00Comments on Eternal Sunshine of the Thoughtless Mind: "Like writing history with sand"Sudipto Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00272783734959529945noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833411083213663905.post-37838716765893672182010-02-10T09:06:50.624-08:002010-02-10T09:06:50.624-08:00Thanks for enlightening me! That was most thoughtf...Thanks for enlightening me! That was most thoughtful and imaginative of you, dear.There's always that extra nugget of wisdom I continue to get from this little master that moves me, prods me to think again....Kaushik Chatterjeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08712252983920471892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833411083213663905.post-35673240652000363892010-02-10T00:10:24.114-08:002010-02-10T00:10:24.114-08:00No, the title came from Woodrow Wilson's remar...No, the title came from Woodrow Wilson's remark after having watched D.W. Griffith's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_a_nation" rel="nofollow">The Birth of a Nation</a>.<br /><br />Griffith's film was the genesis of film as a medium, probably also the point where cinema was recognised as an art in itself.<br /><br />I was therefore likening Wilson's novel experience with mine at having witnessed an art which is the first of its kind. We all have toyed with sand in childhood, but it was just the same as what the first cinematographers did - our craft had no language and concrete shape of its own.Sudipto Basuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272783734959529945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833411083213663905.post-75317065422886213592010-02-09T10:15:05.172-08:002010-02-09T10:15:05.172-08:00I was fascinated watching the images in the moving...I was fascinated watching the images in the moving sands, some familiar and well rounded, quite a few of them abstract and imaginary, bold and angular, taking such queer shapes and patterns, easily mutating from one to the other and yet another, as you have said!. Absolute kudos to Sergey! The puppet shows, ventriloquism, shadow graphics used to mesmerize our childhood days and now it's the turn of the vibrant sand-art to take its weirdest possible forms, ably supported by multimedia projections, polychromatic shows and sound systems!! <br /><br />Is the title of your entry inspired from the communist-poet John Cornford’s, lines: "And history forming in our hands/ Not plasticine but roaring sands….We are the future…."? <br />Thanks, dear for this fantastic experience!Kaushik Chatterjeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08712252983920471892noreply@blogger.com