This course, was attempting something difficult; an understanding of the nuanced and complex role of a Director in the making of a film.

Is Art so dangerous? Isn't Cinema entertainment? Does one get banned, prosecuted or exiled for entertainment?

A la Godard "Cinema begins with Griffith and ends with Kiarostami."

An autobiopic; a story of love seeking to restore a healing whole to its fragments; the parts that often tend to pull us apart.

Starting with the Dekalog today, loosely based on the ten commandments... it is on the borders, margins, where the frictions play out...

Kieslowski speaks a language of colours; a myriad shades in between, the broken tones. Even his black and white is not quite B&W.

Cinema can take care of a lot of things that tend to go awry in such disorienting, confounding times playing havoc with human heart & head.

I have written more letters in life, than anything else; have read more letters, journals, memoirs, biographies than novels, plays...

Yamagata feels intimate, much like Cinema. Art is critical human practice. The more its pushed under ground, stronger the force it gathers.