As an attempt to get closer to my research question, I am mapping themes, ideas and references I have tried to embrace as a director.
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I mapped myself and my research proposal. I couldn’t sleep for two nights, my mind was busy overlapping this information with my previous works.
Comments closedIn order to identify what I watch when I see and what I observe when I watch, I went to my cellphone’s backup from the last few months and categorized its contents.
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Comments closedFrom the footage we collected during the houseboat episode (for our individual films), we cut a collective piece. The clip above is my contribution and I approached it from the resources Timo and Francesco brought up at the beginning, and taking into account the pacing and intriguing sensation I got from David’s cut, as well as some additional footage.
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Comments closedEliane Esther Bots graduated from this same course in summer. Eyal asked her to come to tell us about her journey during the master’s.
I appreciate her willingness to be crystal-clear about her mistakes, and I admire how she currently embraces confusion.
Comments closedMy first Dutch film. Here I was supposed to subjectively map the territory and, since I’m an expert in getting lost, I decided to do it on the basis of time.
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Mieke and Sam, some beers, some peers, trains, Utrecht, a screening and a meeting.
On the meeting it was pretty much disclosed that this country has the same relation with funds that the Internet has with porn: there’s a fund for any possible activity your mind could come up with.
Utrecht is beautiful.
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The nine of us, nine researchers that is, were sent to spend three days and three nights together on a houseboat.
On the first evening, we were visited by the current mentors (Aneta and Sander), the director (Mieke), and the coordinator (Kris). The day after, we confirmed that we had swum on our own black waters. Sam didn’t care a bit and kept on going back to visit the afterlife of our ever-changing menus.
It was good to meet my peers in a more natural estate. Overall I treasure the time I spent by myself.
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It was enlightening to be on the actors’ side for a few days, since I was able to spot several harsh decisions I have taken in the past. Harshness is not the problem; effectiveness is.
The director should be the last person to talk to the actors before shooting. Talk to the character, not the actor. To his ear, reveal a secret that would trigger unexpected contrasting emotions or thoughts. These injections would not necessarily take over the scene, but they may provide it with a certain complexity or unbalance.
No one has dared to cut the film we shot. We probably shouldn’t.
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