So, I'm trying to make a movie. If you remember I've made one short film which was screened in the Dead Center Film Festival... it was a ridiculous film "about class struggle and entitlement"... well, actually it was a film about a guy who drinks lots of Dr. Thunder and pees out a chicken carcass, entitled "dangers of a caffeine high"... Weird huh?! I don't know why I like to make bizarre films, but I guess I do. What does that say about me as a person?
So this new film is going to be significantly longer than "dangers of a caffeine high". I think this new film entitled "A documentary about itself, with no title, and that's the title" is probably going to be about 30 minutes long. It too is going to be weird. I'm not going to say it'll be funny, but more like peculiar.
So is it possible to make a documentary about itself? Initially I thought it would just look like a weird feedback loop... How can you document a story that only begins once you start documenting? At the beginning you have nothing to document as nothing exists to document? Do you just point a camera at a mirror and hit "record"? But where does a story begin? Does a biography start with, "seconds after I passed through the vagina, I took my first breath." NO!!! Biographies start with, "Little Johnny was born to two Irish immigrants whom barely escaped the potato famine." So, as you can see... a story starts before the story begins! So too my documentary about itself starts before the story begins. What is documented is what happened to get us to the point where the story begins. Captured on film are ideas, dramatic re-enactments, scripted scenes that are symbolic of thoughts or feelings that I had while trying to figure out how to make "a documentary about itself, with no title, and that's the title."
I am excited to make it... scared to show it... people will think it is weird, and thus will think I am weird. But I am not... I'm creative and original, and I appreciate novelty.
So this new film is going to be significantly longer than "dangers of a caffeine high". I think this new film entitled "A documentary about itself, with no title, and that's the title" is probably going to be about 30 minutes long. It too is going to be weird. I'm not going to say it'll be funny, but more like peculiar.
So is it possible to make a documentary about itself? Initially I thought it would just look like a weird feedback loop... How can you document a story that only begins once you start documenting? At the beginning you have nothing to document as nothing exists to document? Do you just point a camera at a mirror and hit "record"? But where does a story begin? Does a biography start with, "seconds after I passed through the vagina, I took my first breath." NO!!! Biographies start with, "Little Johnny was born to two Irish immigrants whom barely escaped the potato famine." So, as you can see... a story starts before the story begins! So too my documentary about itself starts before the story begins. What is documented is what happened to get us to the point where the story begins. Captured on film are ideas, dramatic re-enactments, scripted scenes that are symbolic of thoughts or feelings that I had while trying to figure out how to make "a documentary about itself, with no title, and that's the title."
I am excited to make it... scared to show it... people will think it is weird, and thus will think I am weird. But I am not... I'm creative and original, and I appreciate novelty.
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