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Thanks for the interesting responses. Film as a virus is exactly along the lines i was thinking in one sense.
I mean I was thinking about BOTH the themes of the work and the style.
My theory is that the postmodern magic-inspired genre-swapping concepts behind a lot of the Invisibles are very relevent to cinema and storytelling in general.
I've never done any magic and i'm no expert, but at Grant Morrissons persuasion on the letters page i read Phil Hine's book on Chaos magic and I was amazed by the similarity between the rituals he described for creating a magical effect and what I always considered to be the rituals neccessary to a creative filmaking process. (and funnily enough the rituals neccessary to creating a great party or club night). And to me, films (like all art) are a kind of magic anyway, they are a form of viral information delivery system whether the filmaker consciously intended it or not.
Some are more effective than others.
So.
I am just trying to explore ways in which these ideas could be incorporated into the filmaking process. There seems to me to be scope for experimentation. I am trying in as many ways as I can (at the moment on the writing side), and I was wondering what other people thought.
Diversity of aesthetic viewpoints is good.
Never seen any Kenneth Anger, what are his films called?
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