The Cult of Venus in Motion Pictures
Few of her modern adherents still connect with her illustrious lineage. Present day folk place are less superstitious and more literal. She’s morphed from The Morning Star into The Ideal Babe, blown up thirty feet tall at the local movie theater.
Shamanism in Cinema
We surround our psyches with role models and heroes from stories we read, hear played on stage, watch inside our monitors, or up on the big screen because they expand territory for our hearts and souls to stretch out in.
A movie camera is simply a clock with a lens.
Here, a clockmaker turned himself into a ghost and, with the advent of a new kind of mass hypnosis, generated the first special effects blockbuster grosses.
Cooking Up a Surprise
In his 1958 dark comedy, “The Magician” Ingmar Bergman makes comparisons between his experiences as a movie maker, and the adventures of an itinerant magic troupe from the 1840’s headed by Dr. Albert Emmanuel Vogler. An interesting side note: from about the middle of the 19th century to the turn of the 20th, my family […]
Magic and Movies – Part 1
We reward the magician that can coax our mind to suspend disbelief, providing a new “obstacle course” for our brain. Like our bodies, our spirits want to jump the ruts and get some exercise too. Anything that allows new possibilities to bubble up, leaves us satisfied and in a good mood.
Comedy and Tragedy
Storytellers utilize comedy and tragedy to perform an ongoing autopsy on the culture. When we talk about comedy and tragedy as different things, we are talking about a singular reality we’ve pried apart for clues. They shed light on our preoccupations, conscious and unconscious.
Comedy and Tragedy
November’s blog post will be coupled with December’s post for a year end “double issue,” and will discuss the subjects of “Comedy and Tragedy”. Thank you for visiting Open Channel Content. (click here to read entire article)
Wake Up Call
For me, the film was an expose about what infantile fantasies secretly motivate the wealthy, power-obsessed male psyche and how nature, the feminine and all that is beautiful is shamelessly sacrificed to his insatiable appetite.
Imagination, Rapture, and the Waking Dream
One seemingly petty, little, foolish choice is all it takes for an ideal life to turn into a nightmare. (click here to read entire article)
Arab Spring
2011’s Arab Spring played in real-time on the Internet, with gloves off, like the Viet Nam War played on national television in the sixties and seventies. Not since those days has youth captured and held the attention of the world so impressively. (click here to read entire article.)