Zachary Knighton was born on October 25, 1978 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for?The Hitcher?(2007),?The Prince & Me...更多
“When you think of Tarkovsky's cinema, especially Mirror, you see how an image isn't just created, but is linked to a history of representation, a history of forms, of images, of icons, but we can see how the image is propped up by another field, that of thought, of the Logos. In this sense, filmmakers are not necessarily philosophers but the cinema pays a lot of attention to what philosopher are doing, but also to what poets create. It's in that sense that cinema is a powerful form of experimentation, it's an art which grasps the relation that one has with the world, with things, with the being – there of the world, the cinema puts you face-to-face with ontological dimension of the world, when you're face-to-face with mountains, or flowers, face, a forest, a lake – in this attitude, this face-to-face, our fragility and our destiny is measure, at the same time as the strength of out gestures, of our emotions, our sentiments. It's in this sense that the cinema is extremely powerful.
The question of light is fundamentally the same as the question of sound, my desire is that the source be extremely powerful, vivid, blinding, of great intensity at the source but I want to film it at the final stage, when it's totally exhausted, when the light is dull, the sound barely audible like it had to travel across foggy spaces or maritime depths, as if heard through dense matter or cloud, the light also when it's just at the end of its course but continues to shine. This is what truly guided me, the idea of very powerful, intense sources of light and sound that you only see and hear, hear the last gasp of, the leftovers. There's a beautiful Beckett text called Ill Seen Ill said which is fundamental to this question, at certain moments the image will be "ill seen", the sound "ill heard". In Dreyer's Vampyr there's this incredible sound, you don't know what makes it, it's something that you no longer hear but that resonates inside you. The cinema is extremely powerful when it captures archaic, primary, originary sensation, that's what I at least want from film.”