and the light comes streaming in!

we worked on the website today while the light came streaming in the windows...we remember not to look AT the window but THROUGH the window into completion...
until tomorrow....

Idyll, Idol, doll, dolly, dollop, dollar...dally, daily, days, daze, daisy...from the general to the specific and back again.  Is that narrative, is that universal?

I wonder about DRY MOON, why did I write it, why did I spend so many years working to finish it and make it as good as possible...why did I care?  Why do I care?  As I have spent so much time and money (with no investment save the time and energy of my phenomenal cast and crew)--what is the point?  Riches?  Fame?  Art Film and Profit not "often found in the same sentence"...or is that "documentary".  I should be

We used to have video stores to walk into and look around--reminding us of the work in a physical realm, and before that all the archives that housed the precious negatives--silver light!  Now we peruse the links and digital language of our precious moving visual images...the films are left in the universities, in the hands of kids who never had any chance to "feel the material"--and that was true.  By actually watching the shadows and light wind through the flatbed we could feel the pacing, experience the actual timing of the cuts, even on the rewinds...even going backwards.

Yellow Gracie

...the sunlight streaming in...this is how it feels to be alone, but surrounded by light.  And the light from Gracie pours out until there is none left-- poor thing.  But then, a miracle!  Gracie gets what she wants and the artists sell their paintings for big bucks to a dealer from UP NORTH!
You go Gurrlll....

WHERE IS THE D*** MOVIE?

My friend asked me to see DRY MOON.  Where is it?  She looked everywhere and couldn't find it, couldn't find my Kickstarter --NOTHING but confusion.  I told her welcome to my world...all I need is a good soundtrack, some decent post-production and we can send it out!  I will push this through I promise Jojo!!!

The security of arms...

Well here is another meal around the old table, Mama and Gracie looking comfortable, but maybe it is because of the gun hung up behind them-- reflects the feeling of security, or does it?  Does it create insecurity to see the gun it the shot?  Isn't that the same gun she used to shoot Granddaddy Groundhog? 

Another scene on the cutting room floor...that's the same issue really if you think about it.  Does it exist if it is not in the film?  Does the gun create security if it is never fired.  What is the point? 

My boys are always discussing the sound of the tree falling in the forest and INSIST it makes a sound...humans are so filled with self-importance...Yes there is a whole universe out there that exists even if we will never see it or know it in any concrete way...including the real work that went into the electronic signal that will not become a finished part of the film...but it is there, somewhere.  Preserved on the last of the tapes...