“If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self. Humans, however, can’t live very long without some sense of a continuing story. Such stories go beyond the limited rational system (or the systematic rationality) with which you surround yourself; they are crucial keys to sharing time-experience with others.
Now a narrative is a story, not logic, nor ethics, nor philosophy. It is a dream you keep having, whether you realize it or not. Just as surely as you breathe, you go on ceaselessly dreaming your story. And in these stories you wear two faces. You are simultaneously subject and object. You are the whole and you are a part. You are real and you are shadow. “Storyteller” and at the same time “character.” It is through such multilayering of roles in our stories that we heal the loneliness of being an isolated individual in the world.”
Murakami, Haruki. Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. Vintage, 2001. 231.
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Experience is narrative. We make sense through making stories and retelling there. There is always a cause-and-effect in all moments of our living. As a result, filmmaking, in all sense of the word, is essential to our thriving in this very visual and communicative world. This is also why documentary is more and more prevalent in our highly media-savvied society.
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