Film Process 27th August

A day of walking and thinking and reflecting. I walked for an hour and thought about how I can structure the paper/presentation.

I came home and looked at the new film. I have to admit that it leaves me a little cold. I showed it to Steve who agreed. There is too much intellectualising and bringing in theories. It's disjointed and awkward. Neither of those phrases are what I was aiming for. I want to say something using the medium of film, but it's making it too clever and taking away any sensuality in the joy of film.

Watching the original (the one I showed at the wood conference), it flows seamlessly, it draws you in, like a film should do, and it's clear about which section is which. The final section is trippy, it's an ecstatic visual as if experiencing ecstacy through a sexual encounter (which is what I was trying to do), it's otherwordly, puts the viewer in the 'other worldliness', you think you can see faces, it's like lying down on the forest floor, and looking up and the squinting gives you refracted images. This is exactly where I'd want it to be with the emotion.