cinematext

The premise of CinemaText is uniting in a single creation the arts of cinema and literature, bringing two seemingly contrasting disciplines together.
The finished work is a new kind of art that is indebted to both its parent forms. The objective is to tell a story using both formats, integrating them in a single piece. Meanwhile, the order, intermeshing and duration of the cinematic and textual elements are entirely malleable, such that just as in creating a book or movie, the artists have complete freedom to relate their story as they wish. The only guideline and core principle for CinemaText is the use of both formats in the final product: the ongoing use of both literature and cinema will create new forms of expression, or rather, new uses of those forms that already exist. There will be no other rules.
CinemaText is not a new kind of cinema, nor of videoart, installation, or performance. Instead, it represents a new form of artistic work using both the moving image and the written word. Ultimately, CinemaText might take a form similar to a book or other object, but we need not establish any definitive form.
CinemaText could consist as easily of a story, novel or any other written narrative, as of a feature film or short. As stated earlier, there are no rules except using both formats together. CinemaText aims to generate a new generation of narrator-directors (or however else those who combine writing and film-directing might be known). The idea is not to create movie adaptations of books, nor books based on movies, but to experiment with new works.
As a new medium for artistic enjoyment, CinemaText appeals to our evolving multi-media sensibilities. Our task, then, will be to find a balance between the two languages from which it draws. We charge ourselves with embracing both writing and filming, words and moving images – and creating a living symbiosis between them.