FILM-TV 2 – Analysis/Reflection #2 – Question 2
Select from one of the readings and briefly describe two points that you have taken from it. Points that excite you, something that was completely new to you.
‘Imagining Reality’
“Where the process of making the film became also a process of spiritual and formal discovery. For me, making a documentary involves a degree of schitzophrenia: I try and enter the subject, see the world through its eyes, accept its logic, while at the same time maintaining an aesthetic and often ironic distance from it.”
This quote really excited me because I love the idea of finding something deeper in film. The ability to think outside the realm of technical work, structure and sticking to schedule, and being able to delve into a philosophical and spiritual discovery is incredible. I seek to experience this myself. This quote describes the approach that I want to take to my documentary for FILM-TV 2 documentary. I want it to be an experience which is more than just an assignment, get it done, due date, freak out, pass, forget about it. I want to invest myself in it. Obviously this particular sentence really sparked my creative energy for this course, mainly because of its mention of ‘seeing beyond the physical’ in the love of art.
“Challenging the viewer doesn’t necessarily mean being didactic or boring. The documentary, like any other film, should try to seduce and entertain its audience, if only for the sake of its own survival.”
THANK YOU! There is way too many films that try to test the attention span of its audience, and those left standing (or seated if youre in a cinema) are narcisists who pretend to know exactly what they saw, what it means, all while smelling their own farts and sipping on some 1941 pinot noir from the far reaches of nonna’s vinyard in southern Italy. My main belief is that “if you create a film (or documentary) and it fails to either engage or entertain an audience, then you have failed to make a film.” The reason being, is because film is meant to impact us, create an emotion from what we can see on screen. It’s a beautiful window into the most valuable attribute to human beings, emotions. Therefore, I completley agree with this sentence, and love the use of the word ‘seduce’ to describe a films engagement with its audience and vice versa. Excellent reading.