Notes for "Rameau's Nephew"

Abstract

To me it's a true talking picture. It delves into the implications of that description and derives structures that can generate contents that are proper to the mode. It derives its form and the nature of its possible effects from its being built from the inside, as it were, with the actual units of such a film, i.e., the frame and the recorded syllable. Thus its dramatic development derives not only from a of what may involve us generally in life but from considerations of the nature of recorded speech in relation to moving light-images of people. Thus it can become an event in life, not just a report of it. Echoes reverberate to language, to representation in general, to in the sound cinema, to culture, to civilization. Via the eyes and ears it is a composition aimed at exciting the two halves of the brain into recognition.