What do we seek, since the first traces of hands impressed in rock the long, hallucinated perambulation of men across time, what do we try to reach so feverishly, with such obstinacy and suffering, through representation, through images, if not to open the body’s night, its opaque mass, the flesh with which we think – and present it to the light, to our faces, the enigma of our lives.
1. Philippe Grandrieux, ‘Sur l'horizon insensé du cinéma’, Cahiers du cinéma hors série: Le siècle du cinema (November 2000).
1. Philippe Grandrieux, ‘Sur l'horizon insensé du cinéma’, Cahiers du cinéma hors série: Le siècle du cinema (November 2000).
