Two foundational axioms; from Denis Levy’s work:

1   Cinema is capable of being an art, in the precise sense in which one can identify, among the none divided of forms and subjects, cinema-ideas.

2   This art has been traversed by a major rupture, between its identification, representative and humanist( ‘Hollywoodian’ ) vocation and modernity which is distanced, involving the spectator in an entirely different manner.

Can you elaborate Mr. Levy?

The passage of an idea in a film presupposes a complex summoning forth and displacement of the other arts – theatre, the novel, music, painting…- and that as such ‘pure cinema’ does not exist, except in the dead end vision of avant-garde formalism.

No film, strictly speaking, is controlled by artistic thinking from beginning to end. It always bears absolutely impure elements within it, drawn from ambient imagery, from the detritus of other arts, and from conventions with a limited shelf life. Artistic activity can only be discerned in a film as a process of purification of its own immanent non-artistic character. This process is never completed. Alain Badiou. Infinite Thought. 2014.

Long live Poetry, cinematography, wine, and young women.