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Hello fellow film lovers! I am a graduate student in UCLA's Cinema and Media Studies program who enjoys exploring movies in all their creative, aesthetic, and political dimensions. My aim with this blog is to offer insights into recently-released films for those who are also drawn to the potent possibilities of the seventh art.
"Now I am an illusion, just like the films. They see me, but they can't recognize me." ~Mignon Duprée in Julie Dash's "Illusions" (1982)
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Maya Deren: A Pioneer of Experimental Cinema
When we experience a film, we prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. I would say there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly. ~Ingmar Bergman
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