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born 1978 United States
Scott Crary (born April 12, 1978) is an American film director, producer and writer, whose works include the films Kill Your Idols, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution, and Fire Music.
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You'd feel a little intruded upon, which is precisely how all the best art should make you feel.
Love is never more than a faith, and that’s why it’s so exciting.
Any art should be advertising for one's soul.
Photography is a hunt. But one that ends in the immortality of the prey, rather than the prey’s death.
Nostalgia is an illness. A symptom of the dying, of those who have more life behind them than before them.
Our story is not really ours until we tell it, until it belongs to others too.
Film photography just makes such an ally of chance, and chance is essential to any valid art, to the poetic…to life, to the spiritual.
Patience is the only honest muse. In writing, in painting, and especially in photography.
Collective subversion is conformity. The only true revolution is the singular one.
All lovers are runaways, are fugitives. Inheriting the entire world on that journey. Escaping to one another.
Don’t hunt for what to photograph. Let images find you. You wander your desert until worthy mirage appears. Wait until that worthy shot comes. And then try to capture it.
Love is at essence ritual of tandem fate, of harmonized experience. It’s a holy thing, that merging of consciousness. Our minds become authored by so many of the same events, colored by so much mutual memory.
(William) Burroughs was all about the future. Was all about liberation through the dismantling of presiding orders. He was a big influence on punk culture and punk music (and me) for that reason.
There is no artistic worth in compromise, in a pair, in collaboration, in obedient unity. These are all impossible terms. Action must come from the individual. The group (even if just a population of two) is only capable of reaction.
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