Rejection! Yay! (Wait, what?)

I got 2 film festival rejections today, and I am so happy about them.

"Ok, we know you're a psycho, but what?"

Well, because

1) I am keeping on track with my idea from the beginning of last summer- No work will be done that is not for display or submission.

2) Because of what they said (Wisconsin Film festival is actually one of the better learning experience submission opportunities):

From their letter:

Some members of the jury asked me to send the following comments about your film:

"I loved this story-- perhaps the piece would come together even more if the images related to the narration a bit more closely."

Well, I guess then that there are few pieces we would see in class that would be accepted to the Wisconsin Film Festival today. Super sweet, and besides the important parts of the above quote were "I loved this story" and "...come together even more..."

I'll take those two things over the boiler plate rejection from an inappropriately selected festival (which was my other letter) any day of the week.

On those notes, I'll share some test photos for my basic film class that I just put up for my actress this week (they're re-photgraphed with my digital camera, so they're imperfect reproductions). I offer them as a part of what really is a daily practice of collecting images
simply because of my class-load.

How do I relate these to class? Well, in a way, they are, and this is, a diarist's entry. This entry is what's going on in my life, and the art that is coming out in response to it. Really, that is what daily practice is best suited for it seems to me, a filing cabinet of capturable memory. Daily practice not only changes your format of the moment, but creates (at least, is creating for me), a basis for examining my own work in the context of the everyday, while giving me a storehouse of images for the future. Am I going to try and connect my images to the narrative more? Highly unlikely, given the nature of this program, my own current influences and what draws me to other works. Am I pleased that I kept up with this challenge? Hell yeah. I'm not going to make any promise to keep it up for the entire semester, but it might happen. Of course, promising it will happen would be kind of like Chantal Akerman swearing she'd never get behind a big money project ever. (And no, this isn't my girlfriend, and yes the pictures are extremely artificial and directed and lit.)