A short film made for Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded | dG1fUFFiaG10ZmJmQkE
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00:00 Paul Schrader, On the High Line, May 29, 2013.
00:07 When I first came into the film business, it was a time of crisis.
00:10 Society was in upheaval.
00:11 There was a drug revolution, sex revolution, gay rights, women's rights, civil rights,
00:17 anti-establishment, and the times required new heroes, new themes for movies.
00:23 And we had about 15 years of interesting film.
00:26 Motion pictures are again a time of crisis.
00:29 Only today, it is a crisis of form, not a crisis of content.
00:32 We don't know quite what movies are.
00:34 We don't know how long they are.
00:35 We don't know how you see them, where you see them, how you pay for them.
00:38 It feels more like 1913 than 2013.
00:41 Everything is being made up on the fly.
00:42 The idea of film entertainment is undergoing a systematic change.
00:46 Every week brings another change.
00:47 No one knows for sure what it will be like.
00:49 There won't be a projected image in a dark room in front of the audience.
00:52 That's 20th century.
00:53 Watch out.
00:54 We also know that content is character, story, theme, form is delivery systems.
00:59 Content is the wine and form is the bottle.
01:01 There is no content without form.
01:03 There is no wine without the bottle.
01:05 When form is changing, content can't stabilize.
01:08 You can't make a revolutionary film in the middle of a revolution.
01:12 My concern is that this period of transition we're going through may not in fact be a transition
01:16 at all, but a new status of permanent technological change, which never stabilizes, can never
01:21 resolve itself to the point where content can again reign supreme.
01:25 Goodbye, Venice.
01:25 [music]