Her Tongue She Named Harold
Jul. 15th, 2009 12:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rinueMy film, lots of contracts, and the remainder of my novel-length master's thesis are in the post, and should arrive in London next week unless all British Mail employees suddenly catch swine flu and die.
The one director's note I didn't include in the thesis (because I was tired and out of time and had the option of being finished) is the wonderful experience of working with architect Mark Gunderson, who among other things creates architectural models based on philosophical artistic questions like "what kind of building can I generate by folding and extruding a square, and how can I justify this square, and how can I make the building beautiful and sensible in such a way that it won't appear to be a theoretical exercise?" He allowed me to use one that reminded me very much of origami cranes, a thematic element in the script. When I sent him some preview stills, he was delighted to see the folded paper cranes, as he and his architect wife had recently folded a thousand for a funeral. And delighted that the film was called "Aperture" - he teaches an advanced masterclass by the same name, based around the idea of placing a small window in a square space, and placing it carefully to create the right light atmosphere and play with camera obscura.
I'll share the film as soon as possible; my producer and I need to figure out what exactly to do with it. For now, I'd like to be on vacation and sleep through the night at least a few times before I try to do anything else.
The one director's note I didn't include in the thesis (because I was tired and out of time and had the option of being finished) is the wonderful experience of working with architect Mark Gunderson, who among other things creates architectural models based on philosophical artistic questions like "what kind of building can I generate by folding and extruding a square, and how can I justify this square, and how can I make the building beautiful and sensible in such a way that it won't appear to be a theoretical exercise?" He allowed me to use one that reminded me very much of origami cranes, a thematic element in the script. When I sent him some preview stills, he was delighted to see the folded paper cranes, as he and his architect wife had recently folded a thousand for a funeral. And delighted that the film was called "Aperture" - he teaches an advanced masterclass by the same name, based around the idea of placing a small window in a square space, and placing it carefully to create the right light atmosphere and play with camera obscura.
I'll share the film as soon as possible; my producer and I need to figure out what exactly to do with it. For now, I'd like to be on vacation and sleep through the night at least a few times before I try to do anything else.
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Date: 2009-07-16 02:59 pm (UTC)Ciro's straightening out a transcoding error on the NTSC version to make it perfect, and then we'll mail a copy down to you, along with a small check so that you can make copies for Amber, Byron, etc.
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