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I have been in search of form, just like I have been in search of home. My practice — once armored with sureness and didacticism — has shed its skin. When I look at its core — weathered, softened, bare — it is the longing to tell the stories that I want to tell. | I have been in search of form, just like I have been in search of home. My practice — once armored with sureness and didacticism — has shed its skin. When I look at its core — weathered, softened, bare — it is the longing to tell the stories that I want to tell. | ||
''Stories of love, loss and redemption,'' says the host of the podcast Modern Love. I wonder how many of us stumble across the wasteland of correctness waiting to be moved, understood, waiting | ''Stories of love, loss and redemption,'' says the host of the podcast Modern Love. I wonder how many of us stumble across the wasteland of correctness waiting to be moved, understood, waiting for a smile and smile ourselves. Waiting, wanting. I want to tell stories of the heart — how it aches, weeps, heals, hopes, with its sentience, its sorrow, its wounded kisses. I want to tell them with as much depth, sincerity and humility as I can. I have become a filmmaker. | ||
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Revision as of 11:06, 28 November 2019
Proposal
Final: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17f8B3_IX4SmDIgM4GAb3n6-JAGGVsB6zSEMUwA72DLw/edit#
Older drafts: jujube/thesis-drafts
Statement
I have been in search of form, just like I have been in search of home. My practice — once armored with sureness and didacticism — has shed its skin. When I look at its core — weathered, softened, bare — it is the longing to tell the stories that I want to tell.
Stories of love, loss and redemption, says the host of the podcast Modern Love. I wonder how many of us stumble across the wasteland of correctness waiting to be moved, understood, waiting for a smile and smile ourselves. Waiting, wanting. I want to tell stories of the heart — how it aches, weeps, heals, hopes, with its sentience, its sorrow, its wounded kisses. I want to tell them with as much depth, sincerity and humility as I can. I have become a filmmaker.
Texts
jujube/thesis-critical-reflection
Keywords
Memoir
- memory-image, exile, diaspora, loss
Practice
- grief, self-understanding, longing, loneliness, care, ritual
Reflection
- narrativity of image, affect evoked by memory, aesthetics as bond (between the self and others)