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QOTD: Jodorowsky on being creators

on the memetic/mimetic art theme, the current issue of Interview Mag (the one with a totally unrecognizable Katy Perry as the cover) has an interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Chilean surrealist filmmaker who made the infamous art film “Holy Mountain” in 1973.  it’s really too bad it’s not online to share the whole thing because he is such an inspiration for right now. choice quote (emphasis added):

“I think in life there are very few creators.   There are a million imitators, but what is a person who imitates?  It’s just a superficial reproduction of things.  I am seeing today a multiplication of superficial work.  Photos, photos, photos, myself, myself, myself…. but a lack of humanity now.  You have all the communication, but what will you say?  I have Twitter, but I never say what I do or what I eat.  I am transpersonal.  I think art needs to be transpersonal. It needs to break from our individual limits.  It needs to go outside our common, collective humanity.  We are in MoMA right now, which is paradise. We are wit the spirits of art.  But outside, you have reality, which is very dangerous.  It’s in pain.  Nobody’s happy.  Not just economically, but also emotionally and creatively.  They have lost the meaning of politics, of religion, of health.  Today, medicine is an industry.  Everything’s industrial.  But I say the night makes the day.  After a night, it is the day, and not the reversal.  Not after the day is the night.  It is a positive message.  Everything that  happens in your life is for the good.  I don’t believe in political revolution.  I believe in poetical revolution.  That’s what I believe.  So where do we put the power?  In the consciousness.  Everything we do should be to open the mind of a person.”

i love this because it is the same mix of perceptions that i have, that while it contains what are superficially pessimistic realist statements (“Nobody’s happy”), this recognition of the darkness of the world feeds the belief that if we tune ourselves properly it will lead to light.

+obviously a screening of Holy Mountain is in our near future if anyone wants in.

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