Gabrel Francesco’s Reviews > Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima, 1956-1978 > Status Update

nagisa oshima, prison abolitionist

“Today, when all art is placed on the conveyor belt of mass communication and artists treated like overprotected children, it has become difficult for fresh art that explains the unknown regions of the human psyche to emerge.”

“If we make films about the past as their subject, they must also contain premonitions about the future.”

“We must destroy the illusion that films are characterized by the flat storytelling of the naturalist novel and affirm that what is cinematic is bold fiction and free structure.”

this is some of the most stimulating and insightful writing on film (+more!) I’ve read in quite some time