does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.” Albert Camus, ‘the Rebel: on Man in Revolt’ (1951)

Our Western society badly needs ‘beauty’ at the moment. Everything is becoming uglier …

In terms of the arts and culture, I have ‘ the beauty’ and need a top director and producer to collaborate with on my project.

to create images which radiate deep meaning, meaning beyond what they show on their faces, but still ground in the visible, as if the object or fact presented on the screen were the ‘sign’ of a psychic movement, of an impulse, of an inspiration, the sign by which man recognizes himself” …Sergei Eistenstein

Love the sentiments

The mares that carry me as far as longing can reach rode on, once they had come and fetched me onto the legendary road of divinity that carries the man who knows through the vast and dark unknown. And on I was carried as the mares, aware just where to go, kept carrying me straining the chariot; and young women led the way …

And the goddess (Persephone) welcomed me kindly, and took my right hand in hers and spoke these words as she addressed me: ‘Welcome young man, partnered by immortal charioteers, reaching our home with the mares that carry you. Parmenides b. 515 BC

I never imagined that back in the 1980s, the discovery, and subsequent theft, of half-a-millennia old Northern European ‘stag carvings,’ would become a core event in my personal story over many decades.

‘My’ fugitive stag took me on a quest that led to Goddess, or what Goethe calls the ‘Eternal Feminine.’ Together, ‘she’ and I toured European culture, past and present, exploring social, cultural, theological and philosophical ideas within my spiritual heritage.

Much of what I saw was a ‘Waste Land’. I even thought at one point that I would be stuck in “rats’ alley.”

Poetry helped save me. Beauty became my redemptrix.

And much to my surprise, the record of my adventure ended up not as a prose poem but a screenplay. A film flirting with the world of arthouse and high concept films!

But only flirting.

The ‘Fugitive Stag’ is an exciting adventure story with broad audience appeal. And a tagline supplied by one of the greatest writers of all time, the Russian Dostoevsky – “Beauty will save the world.”

In ‘The Fugitive Stag’ Guy was hunted, and wounded.

The wound went deep, but it was a wise wound, a healing trauma …

Transformation.

“He leant upon a tree As though to meditate on wounds and blood” (from ‘Cuchulain Comforted’ by W B Yeats)

Some day we shall get up before the dawn
And find our ancient hounds before the door,
And wide awake know that the hunt is on …

(from W B Yeats ‘Hound Voice’)

… With them the silver hounds, 
            sniffing the trace of air!  Haie! Haie

(from Ezra Pound ‘The Return’)

     

      

Werner Herzog writes “A lot of what you see in my films isn’t invention; it’s very much life itself, my own life. If you have an image in your head, hold on to it, because. as remote as it might seem, at some point you might be able to use it in a film.

I have always sought to transform my own experiences and fantasies into cinema.”

Yes! True metamorphosis.

Herzog continues: “My films come to me very much alive, like dreams, without explanation. I never think about what it means. I think only about telling a story, and however illogical the images, I let them invade me.”

Almost four years on since I took up Peter’s challenge …

We are hurtling towards TV remake apocalypse. Prepare for the worst | Peter Bradshaw – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/04/tv-remake-apocalypse-prepare-worst-film-icons?CMP=share_btn_tw

“Running dangerously low on mythic icons to sex up or reinvent. God forbid they should create something original.

……. follow The Fugitive Stag to find out what happened!