Film-Truth/Council of Three

Basic and essential: FILM-PERCEPTION OF THE WORLD

The most fundamental point: use of the camera as a cinema-eye more perfect than the human eye for exploring the chaos of visual phenomena filling the universe.

M A K E W A Y F O R T H E M A C H I N E !

The cinema-eye works and moves in time and in space, seeing and recording impressions in a way quite different from the human eye. Limitations imposed by the position of the body, or by how much we can see of any phenomenon in a second of seeing–such restrictions do not exist for the cinema-eye, which has much wider capabilities.

DOWN WITH 16 FRAMES PER SECOND

We cannot improve our eyes, but we can always improve the camera.

I am cinema-eye–I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, show you a world such as only I can see.

From now on and for always I cast off human immobility, I move constantly, I approach and pull away from objects, I creep under them, I leap onto them, I move alongside the mouth of a galloping horse, I cut into a crowd, I run before charging troops, I turn on my back, I take off with an airplane, I fall and rise with falling and rising bodies.

Freed from the tyranny of 16-17 images per second, freed from the framework of space and time, I coordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I may record them.

My mission is the creation of a new perception of the world. Thus I decipher in a new way a world unknown to you.

But it is not enough to show bits of truth on the screen, separate frames of truth. These frames must be thematically organized so that the whole is also a truth.