the cupboard

pretty quiet in here! just to get away from everything hearing my small sharp breathing as though i have just run a mile, in this small space. The clothes brush against one another with small whispering movements. A brush above one another and they make me nervous because no matter how much i try to be still, there is always some brushing and scratching. My breathing is rhythmic and kinda scary not knowing whether that rhythm is the right speed or not. i hear the door slam, and my name called. Arvid came in what are the chance if that? so the silence is over. so thats the best way to get some silence hide in a wardrobe wiht nothing in it!

The Beach

Its loud. wind, sand, screeching, water, to be calm and listen is much harder here! its hard to even focus because of the amount of wind blowing through my ears. The water powers hard crashing through the screeching of the wind, not sure if the wind is protecting me or just adding t the bashing waves. the children yelling and alughinh as they run in and out of the oceon. as my feet spinkle the sand around so that my feet are covered, through all the noise you can still here that tiny sound of the sand falling... its like the noise is cornered so u can still here those tiny sounds. No matter how loud the beach can be its beauty complete!

My room

Hard to get away from the continuoous buzzing and hirring of the air conditioner blasting out the critically cold air. The distant mumble of young girls giggling. I wonder what it is thats so funny. Surely nothing but insane girly giggles. Sudden burst of shouting outside in the hall knowing there is no silence ever inside this house, trapped in a constant buzz if people, and air conditioning. Scratching sheets and bending screeching bed springs. When the fridge starts up and buzzes away every distant sound of chatting. A moment silence never occurs. When a door slam wakes me up from my listening, and its silence i my head once more!

Manifesto

well... I am a drama, theatre and performance with film production student back home in England, I tend to look at film through a theatre aspect, not because its less important but just because thats how i was taught you know its my background. When i watch a film it is to me pretty much exactly why film was created in the first place, its an escapism. It takes me away from the norm and immerses me into something new exciting and real. when I watch a film, you know one that really makes you go woooo what does that mean? why did they do that? How is that possible? it makes me want to create that, i wanna make people think, and maybe for one moment change the way they think about things. Film is different from theatre, its both more real and more unreal, I mean like abstract theatre its there,your thinking about it, it doesnt make any senese and yet you emotionally feel something because there is something there that changes the way you feel, thats how film is, its the emotional connection an audience can have with something that was created how ever long ago and it can change something bout the way you think.

With experimental film, i always look for the emptional connection creating some sort of character relationship, whether its just between one squigly line and
another there is a connection, and thats something i think theatre has given me. I always find a way to identify emotionally to stuff.

so lets bullet point me..
*Favourite film: E.T the extra-Terrestrial.... I love steven spielberg...
*Favourite song: right now robably mercury summer-fightstar if you dont know them Listen!
*favourite food: Roast dinner..
*favourite colour: Lilac
*favourite sweet: Cherry drops
*favourite author: Nicholas Sparks... love him... pretty much why im in Wilmington!

so yer thats pretty much me... Oh yer and I'm a director, well you know im trying to be, I have a theatre company back home... and so i guess thats where i want to be ion the future, but i love how film works and the intenssity an audience gets towards actors so maybe Ill go that way!

Marlon Riggs

Artist, poet, writer, producer, director.... he is a contraversial filmaker creating tv documentaries, where he tries to brings up new thoughts and issues that can be debated and discussed as to what should be seen by the public in order to broadern their minds.

He was born in 1957 and died at the very early age of 37 in 1994, of Aids. He created films that spoke out for his beliefs, as a gay black man in the 90's he created films that would open up the perseptions of what america should be seen as, "America was white, america was male and america was heterosexual, " this quote was what he was fighting against showing the diversity of America. He's final film 'Black is Black Ain't' he worked on from his hospital bed and did not manage to finish it and so his friends finished the film for him and yet it shows everything that he stands for.

He was a fantastic poet and most of his films use some form of voice over poetry to heighten the message that they are showing.

being known as the creator of Queer cinema in the Avant-Garde was just a small part of what he was good at, graduating from harvard with a History degree and then continuing to gain his masters in Journalism from berkley, he was a very intelligent adn creative young filmaker.

Introduction to Avant-garde

Second reading! well once again the whole rebelling agaist the norm, and trying to reinvente cinema as it was once seen is pretty forward! The fact that cinema is and economic and commercial industry is clear that how its sooo successful. but i guess thats what all us rebel creates of new things want to do, find another way to express ourselves. Macdonald focuses on the individulaism and self expression that is seent hrough Avant-Garde filkms. Being a "full scale re-evaluation of film" which is what it is, attention is on sound, visuals, rythm, and less so on storyine if at all.


The only issue i have with this reading is the use of the words movie and film. Now this might be a cultiural difference, but in England everything is a film, whether a low budget student experimentalshort or the newest Oscar winning Guy Richie production, they are all films there is no classification as to which is a movie or a film. I dunno i kinda got confused as to why a blocckbuster film is considered a movie when he never refers to the Avant-Garde films as movies just as films, and that kinda demotes the creation thats there, you no creating a tier of its own.

But yer he makes spome great examples and all that... stupid economics of it alls the problem!

The Film as an original art form....

So.. whether film is an original art form is stated in the article to only be in Documentary and experimental film, and although these two mediums of film do make a particular emphasis in keeping away of the whole narrative storyline of fictional characters, theya re still original, they are real, because pre-production, actors, crew, post productioin all had an influence into this piece of original film, they are all different and therefore original, those films should still hbe considered as an art form. Now... other than that little rant, I really appreciated what Richter has to say. The film industry is based on economic value, and that sucks cos most of the best up and coming artist cant afford to not get paid for their work, and the best creative new films are in what Richter calls the 'Art Form' Documentary and experimental films. The whole idea that there shouldnt be any cliches, and only the literal film form, is great, just to be able to see that simple how the camera captures and creates art is brilliant.

So yer Richter makes a great point, but to overshadow other genres of film is a bit silly!

First Blog

So.... First blog... just giving this whole blogging experience a first go!

So yer in America, and just trying to set this up for my film class... Im an English Exchange student and well, this I guess is my Blogg.

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