Cinéma Pur (French for Pure Cinema) was an avant-garde film movement begun by filmmakers, like René Clair, who "wanted to return the medium to its elemental origins" of "vision and movement."
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“... thats what living happens to be ... the physiological denial of reverence and good manners and Christianity.... At your age ones quite old enough to know what the essence of life really is. Shamelessness, thats all; pure shamelessness.”
—Aldous Huxley (18941963)
“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.”
—Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930)