Expanded Cinema

So you're seeing sounds, yeah, yeah, and hearing visuals, you know? And, and, and when you look at those early cave paintings, you realize, wow, what began then continues to this day.

A guy called Gene Youngblood wrote a book in the '70s called Expanded Cinema, and he talks about, like, the, the compulsion to make cinema, to share our intersubjectivity, to share our inner life as something that began back then in those early cave paintings.

And he says, "To this day, cinema reflects our historical drive to manifest our consciousness outside of our minds in front of our eyes." So those hands on the walls of those cave paintings, I mean, or, or the pictures of those animals, I mean, from where comes that? I mean, it, it doesn't seem far-fetched to me to think it-- well, it came from a mind that was in an extremely psychedelic state.

Hmm.