Filmmaking / Directing : RB's April Challenge (day 29) by Geoff Hall

What's on my mind? Andrei Tarkovsky. Perhaps there's still something we can learn from the old masters and so here's a clip from an interview with Tarkovsky with questions from Tonino Guerra. I like this thought. 'Don't separate your movie from your life.' Create films as you would live your life and don't divorce the two. It's a call to work from your passion, your innermost self. What stirs our hearts in this world, is also what we should make films about. I came to terms with this bifurcation a few years ago, when I took a long, hard looking at myself and tried to gain some understanding of what I should be writing about; I thought of what makes me angry, or what evokes a sense of aching and longing within? My answer was focused on human rights and social justice, but because I'm kinda complicated I didn't want to follow the pattern we see so many times, that of the moral crusader and the creation of didactic stories. What I want to do is create visual stories that can leave the audience with the same anger, the aching and longing that I had when making it. So, I'm not pursuing social realism, but more a transcendent, psychological style which evokes rather than instructs. As Philip K Dick once wrote 'Comprehension follows perception.' That's how I want to work, to deliver the percept. Enjoy the video and please share your thoughts. https://youtu.be/fn2XDqAwIAs