Scott Crary

Also known as S.A. Crary, Scott Aaron Crary

American film director and writer

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Discography

5 total works indexed

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“This is not cinema harnessing life; this is life harnessing cinema. Not a film. An attempt at a film. The imperfect effort is ever present, mischievously decorating every frame. Reminding us: one never actually makes a film—one merely attempts to make a film. Reminding us: one never actually lives—one attempts to live.”
“All lovers are runaways, are fugitives. Inheriting the entire world on that journey. Escaping to one another.”
“Nostalgia is an illness. A symptom of the dying, of those who have more life behind them than before them.”
“Media technology will place a barrier before us. The barrier of a mirror. It is too loyal to history and the history it preserves will become constantly present. No longer a cultural past merely documented, but a past alive. Eternal. So that it is no longer past, but a continuous present that cycles and repeats endlessly, disallowing the possibility of a future. Static memory. Memory uninterrupted by the present.”
“Collective subversion is conformity. The only true revolution is the singular one.”
“There is no artistic worth in compromise, in a pair, in collaboration, in obedient unity. These are all impossible terms. Action must come from the individual. The group (even if just a population of two) is only capable of reaction.”