November
09.
08.
You just consume, think, be impressed. Not 'wow' but pressed in, upon. You take it all in. Then you just do. And those are not arbitrary actions, They are moulded in the material by which you were pressed upon.
07.
Playing out our process, but then with limitations. And maybe using some of the already shot footage.
Shoot our story as a ethnographic fiction ‘A day with M which is also revealing the making of the film’
Has everything up to now just been research? What if now, you are ready to make the film. A film within the film. Twist?!
We play roles but based on reality.
GV: add a fictional element to reality.
Shot in one takes. Exploring slow cinema. - Can be shown in different channels.
Pre 1: quote ‘Jean rouch moi un noir free to play their own role’
- Wake. Wil?
- Bike.
- Shop. Saai.
- I kom langs.
- Phone with gf. pain. Or dad.
- Me back. Very saai.
- Frank
- Confrontation.
- Failure.
- argue about it being scripted
Have spent so many loose days shooting. That was the process. To free from the eschedules. And the result lies in then breaking free from - precisely so I can use use a schedule now with writer script type. And it’s written-but it’s also free. It’s a restriction. One day. Get what you can in the moment because it’s also part real (Marty going to work) etc.
04.
Watched La Cancha (idfa) and think about how it uses the space of a basketball court in such a free way. And making the film so much more about the people there than the space itself. Or the people there are the space itself. This is somewhat what we are doing. But is it really. Why are there no women? Isn't that someone who should be given a voice in this space?
Using passerby speaking on the winkel to fill silences
Can be separated to other channels in presentation
Text/Poetry/Voice Over
filmed 2022-2024 in Rotterdam