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Dogme whine

So, is what we are doing film at all? 

Is it too boring?

On the one hand it's {Note 1: the"8-second" rule} all over again. How much do i (we) want to "go after" the viewer(s) to have 
a well-received "product"? I mean it goes back to art in general. When we (as
"pure" artists) do something -- we don't know if it will "work" or not. This is 
especially true of a series of prints or a series of drawings, paintings, etc. that 
are "exploring" towards something. When we start off, we some sort of idea of 
where the thing is going, but not really. But, when we "find" the thing, we stop 
searching -- in the same way that "isn't it odd, that when you're looking 
for something, it's always in the last place that you look?". 

What-ever it is that we're looking for we find. But, then we keep on looking
and of course we find a lot of other (new) things that we're not looking for and
seeing that these things (in turn) don't work, then we either stop (rest, forget 
what we're doing on, and start up totally a-new later), or go back and look at
what we were doing and try to see the SIDE-WAYS way of going "further".

And this further is of course, is the NEXT picking up of the paint brush.

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The idea of hollywood being "pretty cut and dried" about THE PROPERTY.

Alternatives to "Owl Stretching Time" (Monty Python)

"Rock, bottle and buzzard"

If you can just get them to watch.

To take a chance on:

   Being changed
   Finding out something new.
   Being disturbed (a bit? a lot?) {Note 02}
      






Notes
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[1] The idea is that for "most" people in a museum, their experience with 
      the art is that they walk along and at MOST (for the most part), they 
only pause for 8 seconds in front of any one thing. 

In the present context, we can of course imagine that a series of paitings hung side by side and Joe Schmoe (Joe or Sally or Toby) walking 
along and one of the three paintings has been chosen specifically to hold their 
attention for more than 8 seconds -- and thus, it "wins".

So, in the future (or the near present), we might have three short films
(eg, 3, 5, 15 minutes)
each. And then we have them compete. 

Traditionally, the films would be shown one after the other. An important 
idea here is that (King Lear) in most films, the viewer doesn't know how long the 
film IS. Thus, they don't know how much time to invest in the viewing. (eg, Keith Close's 
work). If you come with NO expectations then you will watch the entire film. 
But, if on the other hand (TC Mits - Joe/Sally/Toby) watches for a while, and 
doesn't really see anything of interest, they pass along to the next film/painting.
Thus, the ever-present 8-second rule. 

This again goes back to the concept of TRAILERS -- how the film is presented
in preview-form to the public. Why did i know that i wanted to see "Little Miss 
Sunshine"? :That one line: Everyone try to act normal; like normal people,".

Thus, we have to have some PULL for the person(s) to say watch a 25-minute
film by Jack Hannling or Sarah Mertz. That is, the reputation of the director
would be the draw. 

You can NOT escape genre. Their film about the father and the
three daughters -- KING LEAR !!!! guys, hello? hello? is there anyone out there??  The King is alive.  So, what about Exit the King?


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[2] Shock for shock's sake. It's almost as if there isn't really any where to go
     either plot-wise or story-wise or image-wise or sound-wise. So, "they" 
come up with THE SHOCK.


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