Stormy Weather

Oh yes, it is raining and storming in Michigan. The sun has hidden behind these disgusting nimbostratus clouds and it is humid and muddy outside the confines of my house. I guess it's good for my plants, egh.

This next week is the definition of crazy: wrapping up high school (complete with prom, senior skip, senior project, finals), a visit from my big brother, graduation parties, and finally graduation. Even though I am in the process of reconstructing some old t-shirts and trousers into summery clothes and preparing some photo equipment for later in the summer, I don't have much time to sit down and create. So I guess I'm cheating a little, by posting art that I created earlier this year. I am by no means discrediting it but I am supposed to be making new art, not just posting old stuff. Oh well, enough apologies.

I wanted to be in film for a long time. The curiosity of exploring cinematographic art led me to take two film courses and spend late nights with Truffault, Hitchcock, Wells, De Sica, and Coppola. (On a side note, I must mentioned that as much as I tried to enjoy French film, I could never really wrap my head around it. "Breathless" and "Rules of the Game" didn't impact me the way I expected them to, who knows maybe I'll see them differently in a few years).

 I finally took a shot at making my own, short film. Titled "Self", it is essentially a demonstration of my visual aesthetic. Like Hitchcock, I like to focus more on visual components and montage rather than dialogue or plot. As for its interpretation? Even I am not sure of "Self's" full dimension. As a couple of guidelines, it is based on the duplicity of one's nature, how there are socially orthodox personalities we display to the outside world that can sometimes be a repressed version of our true selves. Sometimes the pressure of keeping within the "standards" of society lead to a breaking point where both personalities meld together bringing one back to square one in terms of defining one's identity. The theme is both circular and like a pyramid, building on a basis of taking two steps forward and one step back in order to achieve a common goal. However, these are just guidelines: the correct interpretation of the film is your interpretation, nothing else. Enjoy.

Self