Following our discussion in the “Dream Cities” seminar about the possibility of describing cinema-going as a kind of communal dream, here’s a useful quotation from Dorothy Richardson (who keeps cropping up lately):
“And so here we all are. All over London, all over England, all over the world. Together in this strange hospice risen overnight, rough and provisional but guerdon none the less of a world in the making. Never before was such all-embracing hospitality save in an ever-open church [. . .]. School, salon, brothel, bethel, newspaper, art science, religion, philosophy, commerce, sport, adventure; flashes of beauty of all sorts. The only anything and everything. And here we all are, as never before. What will it do with us?” – Dorothy Richardson, “The Increasing Congregation” Close Up 1.6 (1927).
You might also like to have a look at the latest instalment of the Guardian’s “ClipJoint” feature (here), which draws together a series of clips tackling the experience of cinema-going itself. Perhaps the most interesting is Wim Wenders’s short film Chacun son Cinéma, which provides a useful warm-up for our final seminar on Wenders’s Wings of Desire.
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