Film progress

People I know I have been asking: “How’s the film going?”

A very legitimate question.

I can’t answer honestly unless I say: “Badly.” or, “Weakly.” or, “Feebly.”

I spent months trying to figure out what I wanted the film to say. No, that’s not quite right. The big stumbling block has been how I wanted the film to speak. We have so much footage, most of it great, some of it passable. We’ve had student interns help with the organization.

But the Voice. A film (I’ve realized) has to have a a voice. I’ve floundered around and, now, finally, have found that voice.

Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, and others were my ideas and ideals. Now it might be more Werner Herzog.

(For those of you who aren’t familiar with these influences, there’s a lot of them on YouTube. For Varda, I’d look to The Beaches of Agnes.)

Now we have a voice, and a plan.

Soon we’ll have a film.