Art as an Exploration of Boundaries: Prose and Auteur Cinema

An authorial project by Boris Sillen — literature, perception, and the language of the frame

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Boris Sillen

Thoughts, Images, and Perception Boundaries

On Method — or How Space Is Created

A creative project: a system of thought embodied in text and image.
A space where literature and cinema emerge as a result of exploring the perception of consciousness.

Transcendentally — how thought takes form, how language constructs the boundaries within which we exist. In my work, I do not aim to explain — rather to expose, to attempt to suspend movement in order to catch, in that pause between words, the tension of consciousness coming into being. Where the personal intersects with the imposed, where image and word become reflections of freedom — or its loss.

Literature as the Foundation of Expression

Analytical and conceptual texts, bordering on the artistic, offer a way to approach the existential void and shape it into a precise, deliberate form.

Text demands involvement — a readiness to lose one’s footing. Writing is a form of action: it does not conclude with a period, but continues to exist in perception, leaving a trace beyond the page. In the Books section, one can find introductions to selected works.

Cinema as Text

Cinema becomes a continuation of the project — a space where images, saturated with allusions, require the viewer’s participation. It is not a form of entertainment, but a form of engagement — a field where perception sharpens, and meaning is not given, but born.

I work with the image as an act of thought, where editing, pause, and silence are as meaningful as the word. Perceptual control becomes the foundation of this process. Screenplays are available on the Film & Directing page.

The possibility of collaboration is determined by the ability to recognize the language of expression.

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