CINEMA AS A WAY OF LIFE
I won’t be very elaborate yet this topic is worth contemplation due to increasing mental & emotional space virtual reality is gaining in Post-modern, rather Post-now generation across the World. We must have differing versions of this phenomenon depending upon the sort of life we lead.
I make films independently, non-commercially, yet both these statements are paradoxical. I am completely beholden to ‘others’ as they have to act in my movies & making a movie certainly requires funding!! Yet I insist & do make non-commercial movies, in a linear fashion, one at a time. With no hope of merchandizing & maximizing profits upon investment. I claim an altered ‘value paradigm’. For me, therefore, process of Cinema Art practice has a ‘yin yang’ oscillation between ‘Active & Contemplative’ phases namely:
I live a daily life. With my sensorium I perceive and make meaning of the World that I bring Forth. This is active.
Then I sit, or sleep & dream, I contemplate & visualize in tranquility; picking up some pieces and leaving out a lot, to make my cinematic structures, my Scripts. Maybe I look for money & social support during the same period. Contemplative, I call it.
Then I go out to shoot, rather film, my film. This I can say is active phase. My metabolism responds to filming periods in unique ways. New places, new sounds, smells, possibilities, un-certainties & euphoria of catching a sequence in perfect light & timing; a hundred different pleasures & pains, all make up for this Active phase.
Then I sit on editing. This is club class contemplative period. The heart of my entire enterprise. This is where I make my film. This is what was in my imagination when I was collecting fragments, discontinuous bits of what I heard & what I saw; or what I include and what I exclude from my frame. Which specific sounds with what degree of clarity do I manage to record. Each time an intuition, to be realized as structured composite here, when editing, this I can call a Contemplative phase.
Once the movie is ready, I go out and show it to people, friends, at film societies, at film festivals and once again I am living my active day to day life. This cycle repeats over and over again in my life; it has done so, so many times that I have started trusting it as my way of life. Yet all this is linear, no multi-tasking.
CACA reading #003
rahatavalokit4
I won’t be very elaborate yet this topic is worth contemplation due to increasing mental & emotional space virtual reality is gaining in Post-modern, rather Post-now generation across the World. We must have differing versions of this phenomenon depending upon the sort of life we lead.
I make films independently, non-commercially, yet both these statements are paradoxical. I am completely beholden to ‘others’ as they have to act in my movies & making a movie certainly requires funding!! Yet I insist & do make non-commercial movies, in a linear fashion, one at a time. With no hope of merchandizing & maximizing profits upon investment. I claim an altered ‘value paradigm’. For me, therefore, process of Cinema Art practice has a ‘yin yang’ oscillation between ‘Active & Contemplative’ phases namely:
I live a daily life. With my sensorium I perceive and make meaning of the World that I bring Forth. This is active.
Then I sit, or sleep & dream, I contemplate & visualize in tranquility; picking up some pieces and leaving out a lot, to make my cinematic structures, my Scripts. Maybe I look for money & social support during the same period. Contemplative, I call it.
Then I go out to shoot, rather film, my film. This I can say is active phase. My metabolism responds to filming periods in unique ways. New places, new sounds, smells, possibilities, un-certainties & euphoria of catching a sequence in perfect light & timing; a hundred different pleasures & pains, all make up for this Active phase.
Then I sit on editing. This is club class contemplative period. The heart of my entire enterprise. This is where I make my film. This is what was in my imagination when I was collecting fragments, discontinuous bits of what I heard & what I saw; or what I include and what I exclude from my frame. Which specific sounds with what degree of clarity do I manage to record. Each time an intuition, to be realized as structured composite here, when editing, this I can call a Contemplative phase.
Once the movie is ready, I go out and show it to people, friends, at film societies, at film festivals and once again I am living my active day to day life. This cycle repeats over and over again in my life; it has done so, so many times that I have started trusting it as my way of life. Yet all this is linear, no multi-tasking.
CACA reading #003
rahatavalokit4
