If was great in the film, and immense its achievements, since I accuse and La Rueda, to the majestic Napoleon, if created and used techniques such as overprinting, the distorting lenses, fast and slow motion, and his great invention, the polyvision in short if he combined the genius screen and depth, we know much less to Abel Gance writer, equally great.
Prism consists of the notes is taking Gance from 1908 to 1929, ie his explosives years, years of fire, if not, what would be accurate but limited, their Nietzschean years. His writing, polyhedron thousand facets, is held in the paradox: a romantic spirit in a modern world, a man who exists in too much and in too, which seeks traversed himself to climb ... where do ?. .. to the stars ... that seeks divine joy through suffering, in order to multiply the paradoxes in the spiral. How transmute storm tormented soul in the soul? How to move from the wheel to the spiral? I want to actually reliving my existence, but from the balcony. I claim no circle of eternal return, but the spiral that will allow me to relive every second, but from above. Repetition and difference, and I must say ...
Prism, we said, has a thousand facets. But to crown the paradox, the divergence is that of all their faces converges (diverges then?) To a multiplication intensification -light potentiation of movement and especially thought- by which the soul is revealed.
Abel Gance it launches its slogan and banner, his axiom, and inscribes on the screen and on paper: Create the bucket reality which we live.