I try to turn a place on film into a mental state. I always have three or four locations that I repeat and return to in a film, to make it more mythic. But my fiction films are relatively subjective stories, experienced though one character. And that always justifies a little stylisation in terms of landscape.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the transformation of real places into emotional landscapes within film, using repetition of locations to enhance the storytelling.
Pawel Pawlikowski discusses his artistic approach to filmmaking, where he aims to evoke specific mental states through the use of recurring locations. He believes that by stylizing these landscapes within the context of subjective storytelling, the films gain a mythic quality, allowing viewers to connect more deeply with the characters' experiences.
In practice
A filmmaker could use this quote when discussing their artistic choices at a film festival.
Just by my home is an entrance to the sewers they used in the Warsaw uprising. I grew up knowing people died down there. Warsaw was once a battleground; then it became a morgue. It's a city littered with ghosts. And that never left me.
I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.
Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.
All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.
The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.
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