Bio Sphere

It was a little difficult to write the bio in today's class. I kept switching back and forth between first person and third person. When asked to recount my life in accordance to making movies, I'm kind of old and it gets a bit complicated. It's really better to just say, I've been trying to be here doing this since I was twelve years old and everyone always told me it was foolish.

So instead, I thought I would start sharing my pre-film school stuff, and go on a quest to see if I can't get a hold of that action movie (unlikely, but you never know). Until then, I am going to work in a sort of backwards fashion with things as I find them, at a rate of once a week at the very least. It may not last long, but I have some Hi-8 tapes that haven't been looked at in a few years, and a VHS comp as well I think, so it should get us back a few years (maybe 1992?). Today's installment is from 2003 though, as I leave the world of rock and roll and head out to be a truck driver.

I think that biography is interesting in relating to film makers, although I also think that too much time is spent in speculation with the minimal information we get about film-maker's lives. Really, it is possible to imagine all sorts of things about a person with the tiniest bit of information that could be (and usually is) more about the speculator than anything else. Take Chantal Akerman, and what we read into her today in class. Without the reading, it is difficult to separate ourselves from what we saw.

I also think that I mis-spoke today when I used the word boring. My instructor actually used a more appropriate word: Tedium. I can't say I liked the film. It didn't make me feel very good. But, like my class-room neighbor, I couldn't stop watching, and there is definately a fantastic artistry to its construction that could not be denied.