Isolde Standish > Quotes

“the filmmaker must always seek a new tension with reality and constantly negate himself in order to continue to create a new artistic involvement. (ōshima 1992: 48, translated by Dawn Lawson)”
― Isolde Standish, Politics, Porn and Protest: Japanese Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s

“By this Yoshida explains that ‘when we look at the actual conditions of this world through the camera’s lens, we must deny the random movements of the human eye and restrain the eye’s constant movements in order to focus on one point.”
― Isolde Standish, Politics, Porn and Protest: Japanese Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s