"Astruc writes that cinema was in the process of breaking free of its limiting role as a visual anecdote or mere spectacle: 'The cinema is gradually becoming a language. By language, I mean a form in which and by which an artist can express his thought, however abstract they may be or translate his obsessions exactly as he does in the contemporary essay or novel. That is why I would like to call this new age of cinema the age of camera-stylo.'"
- Neupert, Richard. A History of the French New Wave Cinema (Wisconsin Studies in Film), University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. pg 48
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What is the point of telling a story if we cannot hear the voice of author? contemporary cinema perfects the image, heightens the resolution, introduces the IMAX, all these technogadgets that removes the individuality of the author. If there can only be a movement that stresses individuality more than commodity - not as a subversion but necessity for the continuation of cinematic revolutions.
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