The Jewel of Cinema
Some images wander eternally as symbols of the invisible. Some scenes are not merely visual—they transform into rhythmic poetry. The camera has only one eye. The gift of two human eyes lies in seeing the same scene from two simultaneous, divergent perspectives. But the camera’s single eye sees from only one end, one angle, at one time. And within that single frame, it must convey multidimensional feeling. In this sense, the one-eyed camera is a limitation. Yet it is also the staircase to transcendence. I am reminded of Picasso’s cubism. An artist’s space is bound within the vessel of time, place, and object—what in the language of art we call dimension. Length, breadth, height, and time: four dimensions of reality. And yet artists have always invoked another—a fifth dimension, entirely imagined. A dimension that Einstein too uncovered, altering the very definition of creation in the twentieth century. E = mc ²: Einstein’s new foundation for human history. Energy, ma...