Rashomon

Rashomon (Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1950)


http://www.criterion.com/films/307


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"You have one subject and you look at it from three different perspectives and then you intercut those perspectives."

- David Bowie, from an interview on Countdown, 1980


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"Now montage is actually closer to the facts of perception than representational painting. Take a walk down a city street and put down what you have just seen on canvas. You have seen a person cut in two by a car, bits and pieces of street signs and advertisements, reflections from shop windows – a montage of fragments. And the same thing happens with words. Remember that the written word is an image."*

-William Burroughs

(*extract from The Fall of Art, taken from The Adding Machine: Selected Essays, 1985)