Scenes reflect what has not yet happened, scenes anticipate what has already happened. Scenes that have not yet happened, have. “Continuity” is one of the myths of film; in film, time is round, like a reel.
Steve Erickson, Zeroville (via loopermovie)
Source: loopermovie
How does time make itself felt in a shot? It becomes tangible when you sense something significant, truthful, going on beyond the events on the screen; when you realize, quite consciously, that what you see in the frame is not limited to its visual depiction, but is a pointer to something stretching out beyond the frame and to infinity; a pointer to life.
- Andrey Tarkovsky : Sculpting in Time, pg 117, discussing structure and rhythm
