Kamo B. Kwele

It's all art

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Hozier - Arsonist's Lullaby (Unofficial Music Video)

Fan made video. Shot by Kamo B Kwele starring Sandile Mthiyane

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#Hmm #TearTear #Movie #Film #FeatureFilm #ParableOfRailwayStreet #Durban #DIFF #1stFeature #ApparentlyThisIsHappening #DurbanInternationalFilmFestival #FilmFestival #SouthAfricanNewWave #NewWave #Inspired by #FrenchNewWave ##

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😢😢😢😥😥 #DIFF #Durban #ParableOfRailwayStreet #FeatureFilm #Film #Movie #WHAT!!! #TearTear #Hmm ##

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Awesome slo-mo #Fire #ArsonistsLullaby #Hozier ##burningFields #PiroManiac #Flames #Burn

[dreamsarelies]

I want to avoid becoming too styled, too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them, but it gets lost. - Emma Watson

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Sad thing is I see this almost every day. Makes me so sad

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A lot of people don’t know this man. Iranian New Wave. Inspiration and innovative filming techniques

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Jean-Luc Godard

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Not A Dream

I met a man; after watching American Sniper, I met a man who told me about how much he liked the movie and how it reminded him of those times. He spoke of how he signed up to go to the war in Angola immediately after school, at age 19, "but by the grace of God fell ill and never went. He spoke of how he would generally seek answers to life; what is spirit; life; meaning. He told me how he knows all those weapons and vehicles etc. He spoke of how he found Christ; or rather how Christ found him. He told me that he is a pastor.

It all felt so surreal, being approached by a man of God; someone wanting to tell me of the gospel. It felt like a dream; but it wasn't.

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10 Striking Images from the New ‘Knight of Cups’ Trailer

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When I saw the images I knew it bore some significance, but not until I saw the title did I get proper excited!!! TERRENCE MALICK! :D

[unkaglen]

You belong to a patient God. Not to a hurry up and fix yourself God, but a be still and let me heal you God. Not a why do you keep doing this God, but a God who gives you the keys to break the cycle. God is patient, and He is pleased to take His time with you.

Unka Glen (via godmoves)

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Thoughts

It's like the thoughts overflow and it all spills out, then my fingers become slaves to the spillage of my brain.

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My Intent

I am alone; I have been alone for years now, but in all my time alone, I have not felt too strongly lonely – though it would be a lie to say I have completely lacked loneliness. In all my seclusion, I have been more than filled, because what I got and to this day receive from people is negativity, clouds of smog, spite, disbelief and bland versions of imagination. God has allowed me to be great in my imagination and broad in the dreams I have in the world.

I have been doing nothing in the eyes of the world but everything with my father. At times I too feel as if I have been slacking and lying around, sleeping, snoring, lazing; but when I look back, when I look at my present, I see and feel the truth of my actions. Though they have been more inward, they have been inward catalysing a growth of immeasurable proportions. I in fact have been reading, I have been writing, dreaming, thinking, feeling, seeing, believing.

The polar forces here lie in recluse behaviour and the surrounding of people; relative to doing nothing vs. doing something in the world. This nothing that people speak of, the nothing that people fear and loath, it is in fact not ‘nothing’ at all, but everything in many levels. I have done so much nothing that I can never do ‘nothing’ again. Because feeling God in everything has brought me to my extraordinary diligent laziness. My laziness consists of conformity; I cannot for the life of me conform to the practices of the world. I would die inside if my diligence consisted of that structure and tradition; school; work; nine to five; money hunger. I am much too lazy, much too weak, much too much of a fool. My diligence is in self-preservation, I have practiced and fought for control over the flesh so heavily, my spirit in anguish of inexplicable calibre.

I have read and write and watched and listened. I have searched and knocked and asked. Those dark corners, those cobweb filled attics, those thorn filled bushes and mud swamped forests. God has found me my inhibition and crushed it to the floor. He has not given me what I do not want and cannot handle, but has changed me slowly and steadily, to the point of completion in Him. He has brought me to a place that I can never forget, an eternity I can never leave. This truth is something amazing; fear does not roam these streets.

My laziness in the world has brought me to fight allegations of the world and run through this wall even if it means breaking tooth and nail; just to come out on that differing path, create a career in a world of melancholic hypocrites that believe stubborn is the answer to true happiness. That constant happiness is the definition of joy; those who do not see that there is now joy without sorrow.

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2015

2015

This the new old year is the next book of about 365 pages; wonders and challenges ahead. (I change sentence structures because it irritates me when there is a grammar issue.

My Father, my brother, my friend has given me eternity; the chance to truly change perceptions, a way to serve that consists of extremities. Depression passes upon meeting a girl, thee girl; then hurt came from that girl, and landed right on me. Our lives are made up of suffering; it is a part of the creation of the world. People think being happy means being happy 24/7; but they do not understand what true joy is, the joy that hits you so hard you need not even smile, the joy that hits you so hard that you squeeze tears back into their ducts so as not to pour buckets of water on those in close proximity.

Things change, as much as I constantly say growth never ends, as a human being I am stubborn and often think my growth has reached a point whereby I can now do the ‘everything’ I have disclaimed to God; then He smacks me with a whopper of a surprise and oh is He good at that. God knows me, he knows every part, he fashioned me, and he continues to work through me, the things I have learned are infinite. Loving as He commanded we do causes a person to be so weak; yet in that weakness, it is ultimate strength. Not being able to hold a grudge against someone who has caused you pain is such an extreme strength because it allows you to continue with life regardless of it; allows you to live life to its fullest.

Greatness

‘Greatness’ laid down upon us as a sheet of crimson and gold,

Cool as winter’s night,

Touches our face as a soaked cloth to a scorching pan,

Our pain and hardships revealed,

This perfumed presence wraps around our every wound, mummifying us as dead pharaohs,

Consecrating our flesh to a spirit so eternal,

Dew dripping over our eyes,

Shame stripped away along with the cloth,

Revealing pure naked ambiance,

Acceptance of flawed flesh,

Revelry in spirit seeping through every pour,

Oh so porous is the flesh made new.

  I still have a favourite poem; Pain by Khalil Gibran. Music, Film, Art, is all so wonderful, all so grand, all so vast and eternal. God has presented us with something, something new, he has taken from us our foolishness and shown the simplicity of life’s sophistication. He truly has revealed His wonders only to the children and infants of this world. I see it in their eyes, my heart is stretched at the sight of their eyes revelling at His beauty; my throat is dampened, my eyes opened all stands still as I witness the particles of dust turn with movements of contemporary. To love is to understand. I am alive

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Interstellar

Mixed feelings, mixed feelings man, oh so many mixed feelings!

Where do I start? Okay from the beginning: The film takes a while to start and get into itself, while ironically it is itself (Meta Comment). The large amount of information Christopher Nolan loves to bombard his audience with wasn't delivered as smoothly; it’s like this time he barely made an attempt to deliver it all through magnificent story, it’s like he got too caught up in the science and his over-zealousness left little space for depth and emotion – especially in character relation.

Let me jump the gun as I go right ahead and say that what the female did when they finally got to the planet that takes so many years from a person was one of the most stupid things ever done in a film and paints a negative image for females, not because I’m a feminist – pshh please – because Gravity did the same thing with Sandra Bullock. On Christopher’s part, he could have had the wave not do the typical Hollywood thing of coming close SO fast then suddenly taking forever when it’s practically a few feet away, then probably moving two steps back when nobody is looking. And then onto the issue of the girl, damn I don’t care how important your job is, you’re that far away from something and you see how close the wave is you know good and well that getting that thing is impractical, and downright stupid!

The blonde who ran more than half way across the highway and then ran back and got hit by a bus – see this, see what I mean, giving premise for more jokes and memes about females, because apparently all blonde jokes are about females; but I digress. Advice on this part would’ve been to have had her have more of a chance of getting back especially because; when you have a robot that MUST obey your every order and moves at the speed of fart, why trudge through thigh high water when it can bolt there and back in seconds; then there’s the question of the guy getting back after her even though she was further, okay she was carried by fart speed, granted, but HOW LONG  does it take to board a ship when you know good and well a mother wave is coming to take you out? (To dinner).

Later in the movie the brother goes slightly crazy which is weird but I‘ll leave that to your own interpretation.

Even just the tagline; mankind was born on earth – it was never meant to die here: has nothing to do with the movies resolution, sad sad sad, and it sounds like something Hollywood would've forced him to put there.

There was just too much that was off about this movie.

Points:

Lack of attention to detail

Awful look on the female thought pattern

Lack of depth in story; character motives and relations

  As you might have noticed already a lot about this movie irritated me, but as much negativity as I may have, there are just too many positives to be mad for too long. The very fact that the film is based in a semi futuristic world, where cars still don’t fly but the world has experienced some sort of catastrophic destruction – is that tautology? I think it is, is it? Hmm, wonder what those words mean – I digress again. Then the film ventures, and ventures, and just when you think it’s done venturing, it ventures again. Oh this is one thing Christopher Nolan is good at! Just when you think you've figured it out, he twists it again! It starts with the search for human survival and as a critical audience we make assumptions and negative remarks of our prediction of cliche endings, then it changes out of nowhere. It becomes a game of survival and wondering into places man has never ventured before – see how it ventures – then it goes into separate stories, it just captures you in a way that you would not be able to keep up with your cynical side for long enough and end up seeing the awesomenessnesity for what it truly is – making cool stuff up, like the word I just made up.

There’s just so much amazing and innovative and imaginative stuff that I’ll leave that to you.

I’ll bet you didn't even notice that you weren't told what the resolution to the issue was; eeeh, eeeeeeh. Think about it, you were told the daughter finally found the resolution through her fourth dimensional father, but that part is so awesome, Chris (Yeah we’re totally on first name basis now) believes he doesn't need to tell us how she resolves earths problems - crazy right. Any film that can pull off a ‘Kansas city shuffle’ like that to its audience deserves to be deemed awesome!

Though this film has hints of Christopher Nolan looking too closely at science and losing his child like imagination in things; it is still there and there largely! This, I like to believe, makes up a huge part of the genius of his films – he’s a kid with a huge imagination.

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Life of Pi

Honestly this movies beginning is so monotonous that I hoped it would end. Then admittedly things get interesting. It draws one in and brings back any enthusiasm that may have been lost earlier. The twists… wait for it, ‘Life of Pi’ – somewhat like ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’ – must be the worst Academy award nomination of 2012.’ Though it’s got its perks and good directorial qualities, it misses a lot of ‘real’, Things which make the character believable.

Life of Pi is a great concept, or rather, would have been a great concept had certain aspects been focused on more: like the characters, I don’t know if it was the acting, the directing or the way the story was told to the actors, but it is quite awful – yes an awful performance. Its lack of even simply okay acting reminds the viewer that this is just a bunch of people re-enacting a story. Secondly, and most importantly is the protagonists religion, which somewhat relates to the first point. His views and expressions of beauty through God are great, just completely random at times. My personal theory is that this movie would have been excellent and truly academy award worthy if Pi Patel was at conflict with God at times, like for example: if he loved the beauty but was unsure of Him, or if he said, “My name is Piscine, I think God has always had it out for me, but I can’t help but adore and extol the magnificence created”. He’s just ridiculously mixed about it all as if the writer of the film and book were simply trying to ‘people please’ whereby he caters to everyone just to get more readers/watchers.

Lastly, THE LIE SCENE! My question the whole way through was ‘why’. I tried making sense of it but for a person who went through such a personal growth to just blatantly lie like it was second nature left a huge lack of sense there, both sense in the narrative and sense in his characters strength. If the story did have potential to be true and the whole story of the tiger was a lie, then that scene was put in the wrong place. Maybe if it was in the beginning and then he told the story he believes to be true. Because the story honestly makes him seem slightly cynical or sociopathic, it is likely to lose all emotional investment in its audience. If not then the movie does an absolutely great job at being a people pleaser.

Basically I disliked too much about this movie to talk about the things I liked, maybe next time.

Okay fine, just a few perks:

VFX is stunning,

Cinematography is beautiful, (but the win for the Academy award is debatable)

The serene moments in the film were heart wrenching and finally,

The relationship with the tiger was fun, only sometimes though.

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Film Spouse

Watching Exodus today, just to see how bad it is, - Half Priced days

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Les Misérables

This movie made me fall in love with musicals. But to start with, a few directorial and general misses. First off, it grinds my gears that they used the face of the little girl for the poster, though it worked and it makes sense because of the picture from the play. She is only in a minor part of the movie all together, and it is sad that we only get to see those big blue plated eyes for such a short space of time – once again though it worked, it was that type of false advertisement which tells you that there’s no such thing as false advertisement. There were a couple of scenes that missed character beats, crucial points of emotion or movements which could have enhanced the narrative of the film. One of these was where Jean comes out of the sewer and meets the man hunting him down, Jebert, through the conversation they had, there was a perfect opportunity for Jebert to make some remark about the fact that the boy may take that place as his grave since he hates them so much and thinks they are worth less than nothing. Then soon after, Jean passes Jebert while he goes up the stairs, the thing missed was the change in Jebert when Jean passed him metaphorically rising above him as he goes up the stairs, which was where his speech should’ve been carried out.

Before this I never knew much about musicals, but I was sceptical about the fact that it was a full on musical with no talking in between. But as the movie continues to play along, it really draws the viewer in to a whole different world, it states boldly that it is different and can be categorized as something completely new. Something like what Avatar does, making a viewer feel they are on a completely different planet or universe. A scape-goat

One other problem was the lack of escalation and reason for Jean’s illness which brings him close to death toward the end; it may have been more acceptable if we could see he was ill or close to death, it also would have been easier on him, letting go of his daughter. In addition, it seemed whenever someone had the chance to explain their story or something of the sort; they would only begin it, or tell the blandest part of it. This mostly happened with Jean.  There came a point toward the end where I started thinking it begins to drag along unnecessarily, but I began thinking about the fact that it is a musical and realised that may be the very reason it prolonged its end; so that it can evoke that emotion it was looking for in the audience. My thought was confirmed by my little sister, who later told me she had never cried so much in her life. Through the whole ending, and the couple next to her she heard weeping too, both of them. While I was bored by it.

So this movie. This musical is a masterpiece. This musical is a complete work of art.