Movies are
so much part of our lives that we don't think of them very often as a means
towards spiritual experience or spiritual insight. Most people have a vague
sense that one or two film makers were inspired visionaries: Bresson, Tarkovsky,
Kurasawa, but they probably would not bother to watch a film that promises
to be long, bleak, and gruelling. This issue of Urthona is based on the premise
that not only are the great visionary directors still worth watching, but
also that the medium of film has, intrinsically, great potential for waking
us up. As Gary Gach explains in his essay `Not Giving it a Name', it depends
as much on how you watch as what you watch.
The next issue, number 24, India! is due out May 2007.
