Art Filmmaking
This blog is about the stuff I am working on.So, What’s Art Films?
It is exciting to be on my last year of grad school! The world is wide open and opportunities should be coming up…
This academic year is the one in which I must get focus on my thesis and final project. During the first year of grad school I was experimenting and exploring something that is really interesting to me: the effects of high altitude on the body, and I made different short experimental films on that subject; however, during the summer break I have become very interested on an issue that is considerably more important to me because it is important to the planet, to the environment and life. Latelly I’ve been watching some great films that are considered by the director of one of these films: Art Film. And I am talking about Ron Fricke, director of Baraka, and Chronos, among others. He also refers to his films as: “Life affirming films”, and that concept alone is so powerful. Another awesome director who has explored (some times together with Fricke) this realm of “life affirming films” is Godfrey Reggio, director of the Qatsi trilogy: Koyaanisqatsi (LIfe Out of Balance), Powaqatsii (Life in Transformation), and Naqoyqatsi (Life as War).
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Alx,
I too love Baraka and it would be great to see you move in a similar direction with your film/video work. The images and audio are so powerful in Baraka with little or no speaking/narrative. You have a lot of passion in your concepts and I think speaking poetically through images and audio will leave your audience thinking and questioning… as artists (and activists) I feel this is what we should strive for…
Your presentation was great yesterday. I love your work and it has only gotten better over the past few months. I do think we will see some parallels from your older work and concepts along your new path to the completion of your thesis. The constant theme of struggle and this feeling of an out of body experience, I think, would resonate well with in your new topic. Especially, the struggle to BREATH and the strong imagery of nature which exudes a power bigger than human life. I think your path has unquestionably led you to this new realization even though it didn’t seem apparent previously. What a journey!