Untold Stories About Stories Untold

That’s a beautiful gadget, isn’t it?

The motto of Canon’s cinema line
of products is: “Leave no story untold”

They haven’t announced the price of this yet
but the model with less features than this
costs sixteen thousand dollars with no lens.

Some years back independent filmmakers
discovered handheld Canon cameras
could be used for so-called “real” filmmaking.

And then professionals got on board, too.

So Canon introduced new equipment
designed with cinema bells and whistles
for amateurs and pros making movies.

It’s a beautiful gadget. I wonder
if it’s a gadget that can tell stories
or if it’s a gadget so beautiful
that it would become the story itself.

But I wonder: Are those other stories
just mechanical approximations
or even synthesized re-creations
of a beautiful gadget being used
to tell a story that’s about itself?

I see myself pointing this at Juli
but then Juli says some improvised lines
and not, “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi,
you’re my only hope.” So then I say, “Cut.”

And I wonder: Are those other stories
just mechanical approximations
or even synthesized re-creations
of a beautiful gadget being used
to tell a story that’s about itself?

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