The problem is that directors take a camera but they put themselves in the camera’s place. The camera needs its independence. When they want to do a drawing, and pick up a pencil to do it, that pencil has autonomy. It resists, it doesn’t do just any drawing. Nowadays, we take a machine and the drawings come out ready-made.
“Part of what dissent has to do is stay a half a step ahead of the process of commodification in order to keep that edge that is the edge of life. That’s something that artists always understand, that they’re just one six-month-period away from being trite. Even in this moment, I can feel my own triteness building behind me like Marvell’s chariot.”
Curtis White