September 06, 2004
Back up and running.... I think!
Was down last week from illness, but I'm back and ready to hit the ground running this week. I missed the screening for my short film that I heard was argued as being not a film, so I just wanted to comment on my motives for filming what I did.
I chose not to use a visible person in my film because I wanted to comment on the way the technological world has become. Through the creation of computers, the internet, email, and instant messengers, the world seems to have become more open to communication. Yet you can often find that the most interactive of media is also the most lonely. People pour their whole selves into people that they meet in chat rooms, or restrict their interactions with people they know in real life to an instant messaging existance. But in engaging so whole-heartedly in this media, they lose touch with real personal communication and human interaction. So as a result, they become lonely and feel the world has nothing to offer them. As for not showing a person in my film, anonymity is a key component of the internet; when you talk to someone on a messenger who you have never met, that person could essentially be anyone. What they tell you they are (male/female, tall/short, old/young, etc.) could be true or could be a lie. The anonymity of the digital world allows people to be whatever they want, and I did not want to restrict my film to one specific person. I wanted to leave the character anonymous. Maybe you feel the way that the character feels....it could represent you and your reality. I wanted to leave it open.
I'm a little stressed out from the move; I used to live in San Jose and did undergrad at UC Davis, so I'm not taking well to big city life. Help me out! ^^ I'll get through it, Justin's already trying to help me but failing!
More next time. ^^
Oh yes, everyone play Final Fantasy XI....it rocks. *hides from Justin*
Posted by victoria at September 6, 2004 09:33 PM
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You made something provocative. You took some people out of their comfort zone. You pissed some people off. I think that alone is something to be proud of.
Todd Lincoln's "Leave Luck to Heaven" is a short film that was screened at ResFest last year and included an extended scene of instant messaging (and cybersex!). Its done rather well and I think you might find it interesting/inspiring/funny. I have it on a DVD somewhere. I'll try and dig it up and bring it in to 511 on wednesday so we can watch it.
Posted by: Aaron at September 6, 2004 10:37 PM
Hey, pushing the envelope with your work should not be something to shy away from. The USC cinema school is notoriously conservative when it comes to student films, so you're not alone in getting that kind of response to showing something experimental. Many of my undergrad film friends had their work trashed in the same way, with snotnosed industry whores explaining all the ways in which their cookie-cutter film projects were in every way better than whatever new forms these artists tried to create. Just keep at it, and don't let it overwhelm you. We're all fighting the same battles here. And BTW, Leave Luck to Heaven is fucking great.
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