Alienation is a filmmakers' utopia

After watching Stromboli in the cinematheque yesterday (my review can be found on www.gilyotina.com) I thought about how different things are now.

It was a hot day, as every summer day in Tel Aviv is, very humid and unbearable. The cinema was the great escape. We were all watching Ingrid Bergman suffers on the island, suffers when she not understood or accepted, suffered from the lack of civilization. But what we, the spectators, experienced, was very different. A rare piece of heaven, untouched, full of beautiful black rocks and surrounded by crystal clear water. So much nature, how can she not appreciate it?

Of course the world of the movie is different. But suddenly I realized the connection between Rossellini, Antonioni and Tsai Ming Liang. We changed as human beings, and the alienation we experience now is more connected to urban civilization than to nature and god.

And what is the connection between the god that Ingrid Bergman searches for and the "children of the neon god" of Tsai Ming Liang?

I'm rewriting my script now. It should be shot in October but I'm not sure about it. Maybe it will be a winter film.