Mulholland Drive, Dreams and Defamiliarization
“The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are
perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make
objects ‘unfamiliar’, to make forms difficult to increase the difficulty and
length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in
itself and must be prolonged.” -
Russian Writer, Viktor Shklovsky
Defamiliarization, coined by Shklovsky, is when you take a
familiar way of looking at something and make it strange or obscure in order to
alter your perception of that thing, allowing you to experience that thing in a
new way or a new angle. This helps force the individual to alter their
state of formula in spite of themselves.
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ché la diritta via era smarrita.
