I recently had an experience that I am having trouble getting my head around I though maybe you all might be able to help.
This thursday I drove into Richmond to attend my second Flicker. For those of you not familiar, Flicker is a screening of local, independenlty produced short films. The only rule for submission is that your film must originate on either 8mm or 16mm film. I say that some may be familiar because there are several citys in the US and a couple abroad including LA, austen TX, and Ashville NC that sponser Flickers. It has been a very inspiring experience. To see films that are made with resources that are accesable to people like myself reminds me that there is noexcuse for me not to be making films. That however isn't the point here.
I was watching some of the more experimental shorts desperatly searching for the point. Why did the filmmakers assemble that footage in that way with that music. What is the story they are trying to tell. It was at that momemnt that dispite the fact that I have watched hundreds upon hundreds of films I had only seen film with a narritive. I was not accustomed to there not being a narritive. It was the only way I knew how to approach film. I had only thought of film in terms of story not as photography.
I fashion my self an amatuer photographer and am quite comfortable taking pictures that neither tell a story nor have any point other then wanting to see what would happen when I capture a particular subject at a particular moment. To capture the interplay of light and shadow. I had never thought of useing motion film to do the same thing.
Perhaps I have done a lousy job of describing my experience and you have no idea what the hell I am going on about. Or maybe my experience is akin to believing that I have invented the wheel. Regardless I feel as if a whole new world has opened up to me and I do not have the experience or the knowledge necceasry to really understand what I am thinking. I am hoping that I have done a well enough job of explaining my experience that someone here can point me in the right direction. I am looking for essays, books, websites, anything.....
This thursday I drove into Richmond to attend my second Flicker. For those of you not familiar, Flicker is a screening of local, independenlty produced short films. The only rule for submission is that your film must originate on either 8mm or 16mm film. I say that some may be familiar because there are several citys in the US and a couple abroad including LA, austen TX, and Ashville NC that sponser Flickers. It has been a very inspiring experience. To see films that are made with resources that are accesable to people like myself reminds me that there is noexcuse for me not to be making films. That however isn't the point here.
I was watching some of the more experimental shorts desperatly searching for the point. Why did the filmmakers assemble that footage in that way with that music. What is the story they are trying to tell. It was at that momemnt that dispite the fact that I have watched hundreds upon hundreds of films I had only seen film with a narritive. I was not accustomed to there not being a narritive. It was the only way I knew how to approach film. I had only thought of film in terms of story not as photography.
I fashion my self an amatuer photographer and am quite comfortable taking pictures that neither tell a story nor have any point other then wanting to see what would happen when I capture a particular subject at a particular moment. To capture the interplay of light and shadow. I had never thought of useing motion film to do the same thing.
Perhaps I have done a lousy job of describing my experience and you have no idea what the hell I am going on about. Or maybe my experience is akin to believing that I have invented the wheel. Regardless I feel as if a whole new world has opened up to me and I do not have the experience or the knowledge necceasry to really understand what I am thinking. I am hoping that I have done a well enough job of explaining my experience that someone here can point me in the right direction. I am looking for essays, books, websites, anything.....
