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Kim Miles

 

Some thoughts on film-making

 

Nothing is black and white, everything is fluid.

 

What is cinema? A camera taking pictures?

 

Where is cinema at the moment?

 

Film can examine/reveal humanity.

 

Film does things real life cannot.

 

It can be a great form of art.

 

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?

 

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.

 

There is too much modern "product".

 

I hate all the "rules", man-made structures in making films and getting them seen.

 

Filmmakers shouldn’t be pigeon-holed.

 

A great film can be two minutes. An audience of one is a thrill.

 

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.

 

 

The End!

 


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

 
   
   
   


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Four Women at a Bar

 
   
   
   


© Kim Miles, July 2006.

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