15 August 2008

Only States of Being

"I despise stories, as they mislead people into believing that something has happened. In fact, nothing really happens as we flee from one condition to another. Because today there are only states of being -- all stories have become obsolete and clichéd, and have resolved themselves. All that remains is time. This is probably the only thing that's still genuine -- time itself: the years, days, hours, minutes and seconds."
~ Béla Tarr
[via Spurious]

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About Béla Tarr:
"Hope Deep Within - Béla Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies," by Gabe Klinger
"The Melancholy of Resistance: The Films of Béla Tarr," by Peter Hames

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