An Organisation of Dreams (2009)
“The origin of this picture was this – another script, entirely different, called Guns and Poetry, a political thriller set in the Mediterranean in the 1930s, the producer and I were trying to do. It looked very optimistic that we could do this, quite an expensive picture.”
— Ken McMullen to Vertigo Magazine
“Before that I was talking with Mark Westaway, the producer, and we were discussing the possibility of incorporating a scene with Bernard Stiegler, who discusses with the actors, particularly the lead actor, the danger of cinema, chiefly because this film Guns and Poetry was dealing with the issue of secularisation, highly politically relevant issues of the day, and it was an idea to have a kind of deconstructive aspect to the film that would move occasionally to the contemporary from the historical.”
— Ken McMullen to Vertigo Magazine
“Well we shot the contemporary, and a lot of other scenes around it which grew and developed etc, but we didn’t shoot the other material. We had the contemporary, but we didn’t have the feature film. So, we were surprised at the amount of material – the Paris material was shot in five days, very intense, very fast, many improvisational aspects”
— Ken McMullen to Vertigo Magazine
Can cinema de dangerous? An investigation into the political and psychological power of cinema inspired by the work of French philosopher, Bernard Stiegler.