Emotion Pictures

First of all: Hi to everyone! I've been living in London since September and I've always thought about starting this blog. I'm a first year Film Studies student at the King's College of London.

This won't be a chronological blog, because I think that all forms of art exist and persist in time, so you will have a mixture of new and old.  And, since I'm extremely convinced that each expression of art is connected to the others, they are complementary in a way, I will talk about fashion applied to films, adaptations from literary works to the screen, and so on.

London is a lively and vibrant place for the arts, especially in the Southbank area where I live, and where you can find the BFI (British Film Institute), the National Theatre, the Globe Theatre, the Southbank Centre and, with a ten-minute walk, the Tate Modern.
 
I won't write, or try to write, "scholarly" articles (believe me college is enough for that), but I want to share writings about the first impressions. Those feelings you have when you read the last line of a book, listen to the lyrics of a song for the first time, look at a painting, costume design clothes, and, especially when you see the words THE END on a screen. 

The poet William Wordsworth talked about "emotion recollected in tranquillity", but, I think that when we elaborate our thoughts too much they don't conserve that freshness anymore. 

For long scholarly articles, reviews, etc. tons of books, journals and magazines exist. 
But here I want to use the "eyes wide shut" technique. When we look at something with semi-closed (or semi-opened) eyes, but we are still looking, without too many reflections, but with our reactions to words, music and images.

Wim Wenders, German filmmaker I really admire, named his collection of essays and reviews Emotion Pictures and said in the introduction:

"Images are fragile. Most of the time words don't translate them well, and when they have carried the image to the other side the emotion has all run out of it. Writing has to be careful with (E)motion Pictures."