"Yet, making a film while rejecting narrative is agonizing. During our training, we were drilled to equate creation with narration or the representation of something. So just as I am trying to dismantle the story, I am forced to confront my conservative self that unconsciously narrates it. The weapon I take up in resistance is a fine blade, which I aim at the parts of myself that are still dormant. I have ended up battling the shackles with which I have bound myself."
Yoshida Kiju, My Theory of Film: A Logic of Self-Negation, pg 105-106
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