Abstract
The last movie Jean Cocteau ever made, Orpheus’ Will, seemed to be all about himself: a portrait of Jean Cocteau by Jean Cocteau, an iconic summary of his own work and life. So at one level we have the story of his life’s work, but if you’re in the mood to perceive something invisible and imaginary behind this, for me it’s about something slightly more poetic. This is all compressed into one short moment of the movie, one short moment that I’ve never managed to get out of my head: the petals from an hibiscus are unfolded from blank bare hands, and put together one by one until they form a beautiful blossom. For me this stresses the idea that something beautiful is created out of nothing, and nothing you see had existed before.
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Mulzer, G. (2001). Depth. In: New Masters of Flash. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5143-9_5
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