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Quote 1 When the video camera is on, I always feel that it is a kind ofmoment of truth. Working with film never gives you this feeling ofintimacy. There are too many machines involved and too many otherpeople. You are alone with your video camera. Its like a pencil. Youcan say things that you could never say with film. Robert Frank Quote 2 The filmic diary is twice in the present: it offers both thenow of the recorded images (because images are always in the presenttense), and the now of the reflection and commentary on them. LauraRascaroli, 129. Quote 3 The past events examined in these films are not offered ascomplete, totalizable, apprehensible. They are fragments, pieces of thepast invoked by memory. Like a palimpsest, the past emerges as the sumtotal of its rewritings through time. The event remembered is neverwhole, never fully represented, never isolated in the past alone butonly accessible through a memory which resides in the reverberationsbetween events. Linda Williams, 15. Quote 4 I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which thereis no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinemaverite as a cinema of lies that depends on the art of telling your selflies. If you are a good storyteller then the lie is more true thanreality, and if you are a bad one, the truth is worse than a half lie. Jean Rouch Select one of the quotes transcribed above. In the context of a closereading of one or more films, discuss the implications and pertinence ofthe quote for a broader understanding of the Essay film. Your response must do the following:1. Indicate a comprehensive and sophisticated grasp of both the quote and the film(s) being discussed. 2. Indicate that you have used the quote to formulate a relevant anddoable research question that has been explicitly identified in theessay and answered through a close and precise reading of specificfilmic scenes3. Indicate that you have read and understood the weekly readings andundertaken independent research. (Minimum of 10 references)NB. While you can refer to films screened in class, they cannot serveas the sole foundation of your analysis. films used in class: (cannot use, but reccomend using films from same directors)Letter From Siberia, dir. Chris Marker, 1958, 62 mins.La Pyramide Humaine, dir. Jean Rouch, 1959, 90 mins. Night and Fog, dir. Alain Resnais,1955, 32 mins. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1967, 87 mins.The Beaches of Agnes, dir. Agnes Varda, 2008, 110 minsReminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, dir. Jonas Mekas, 1972, 88 mins Home Improvements, dir. Robert Frank, 1985, 29 m The Present, dir. Robert Frank, 1996, 24 minsThin Blue Line, dir. Errol Morris, 1989, 103 minsClose-Up, dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1990, 98 mins. Lessons of Darkness - Werner Herzog Grizzly Man, dir. Werner Herzog, 2005, 103 minsless