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Some
thoughts on film-making
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Nothing
is black and white, everything is fluid.
What
is cinema? A camera taking pictures?
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Where
is cinema at the moment?
Film
can examine/reveal humanity.
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Film
does things real life cannot.
It
can be a great form of art.
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Does
it take great filmmakers to make great films?
Are
they like the great classical composers; in the past and
not very frequently seen today?
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I
am fuelled by great filmmakers. I may not love all of their
films, but I love their methodology, risk-taking, humanity,
poetry, intelligence, their flaws.
Fellini,
Bunuel, Antonioni, Godard, Renoir, Bresson, Murnau, Bergman,
Cox, Campion, Tarkovsky, Von Trier, Wong Kar-wai etc. etc.
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There
is too much modern "product".
I
hate all the "rules", man-made structures in making
films and getting them seen.
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Filmmakers shouldn’t be pigeon-holed.
A
great film can be two minutes. An audience of one is a thrill.
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If
we are not risking, experimenting, trying to rise above
the mediocre, why bother?
I
find the process of getting the ideas, capturing/discovering
the images, and crafting the story in editing intensely
creative and enjoyable.
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The End!
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stills
from The Purpose of Life and the Nature of Death,
The
World Really is W, Suzi
Wong's Big Day Out, An
afternoon of death dying and lethal behaviour, The
Colour is Blue, Top
Speed of a Rabbit - 72 KPH (two stills), I
thought I wasn’t (two stills).
Sick to the Vitals
Untitled
Four Women at a Bar
©
Kim Miles, July 2006.
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