Notebook(@mubinotebook):"That his films have lost none of their electricity is precisely because of their proclivity for risk, their willingness to demand more than what we routinely expect from cinema—to refuse to treat the camera as a mere extension of our retina. Epstein courted the unknown as assiduously as his protagonists did death. And in the ocean, he found an ever-moving, ever-changing being that was both an endless source of inspiration and a kind of refuge. I cannot think of many filmmakers who enjoyed such a molecular and long-lasting connection with water." @LeonardoGoi on Jean Epstein:

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2026.08.09 13:17

"That his films have lost none of their electricity is precisely because of their proclivity for risk, their willingness to demand more than what we routinely expect from cinema—to refuse to treat the camera as a mere extension of our retina. Epstein courted the unknown as assiduously as his protagonists did death. And in the ocean, he found an ever-moving, ever-changing being that was both an endless source of inspiration and a kind of refuge. I cannot think of many filmmakers who enjoyed such a molecular and long-lasting connection with water." @LeonardoGoi on Jean Epstein: