Wednesday, January 23, 2008

carl dreyer on ambiance

"If we are, through some occurrence or another, brought to a state of great tension, there are no limits to where our fantasy can lead us or what strange meanings we can ascribe to the real things which surround us... Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we realize that a dead body is standing behind the door. In the same moment, the room in which we sit begins to change, and each everyday thing in it looks different, the light and the atmosphere have changed without having changed physically. It is we who have changed, and things become what we perceive them to be."

Neergaard, Ebbe. En Filminstruktors Arbejde, Atheneum, 1940, p.52

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