Beyond the Frame

Thanks for asking this question.  I think that film is something of a Russian Reversal.  You don’t choose film, film chooses you.  

It’s technical.  It’s creative.  You’re always looking to get to that raw center of meaning and pretend that the camera, the film crew, the sound guy, all of the minutia of production, isn’t really there.  No matter what level you are crafting your film on, you have to rely on the machine of production and the machine of the camera to work fluidly so that it doesn’t get in your way.  I love that about film.  That complexity.

I also love that the medium offers the avenues to deep expression that is best engaged with austerity and simplicity.  The best scripts are a meditation on a singular theme.  Your composition - both visual and aural - must contain within it a clairvoyance that is not unlike prayer or focused concentration.  I love that about film.  The simplicity.

I think that’s why film chose me.  It exercises both my yin and my yang.  It’s totally fulfilling.

~ü