Star Wars Modern: Thoughts on Episode VII: Wish Upon A Death Star
“I’ve made my case in the past, that movies (not films) are the art of our times: that large blockbusters are our era’s what altarpieces, cathedrals, large scale history and landscape painting were to their eras. The main opposition that I got for this idea, was that because movies are made by committees ("filled with sharks”), that without a single “free” artist (or auteur), Art is not possible. This view is not only solipsistic; it isretardataire. Corporate “personhood” is settled law. Corporeal Art is a thing of the past (see Death of the Author), and Corporate Art – art made for an by great masses of people, intended, not for an intimate experience between on viewer and an “autonomous” object, but instead as a “projection” to be watched in large public settings by a boisterous crowd, is the Art that most perfectly fit to the modern moment.“