Kid Again: Camerless Filmmaking

Prose Number Three

Music of the Pandora world affects the Pollock-ing drips of ink rhythm from the brush tip.  The clock melts, a persistence of memory, Dali watches the room.  Ants in mind I too practice the thick strokes of Van Gogh, lapped on the velvet coated lines swirl. Rather fond of the six hundred, I texturize lines from a razor, free forming shapes that have no name.  I'm a kid again, boxed in the collegiate.    

  

Response

So far my experience in this class has been a borderline to insanity and relief.  I mean how often do any college students come across a class where there is no wrong answer?  Even in my poetry classes when we workshop and critique each others words and images, we still tend to put a right and wrong tendency on the piece of art.  I have grown so use to structure now I feel like I am being left out to dangle over the Atlantic without the help of any person, but having to figure out a way to survive on my own.

The class gives me my own freedom in finding a way to create on film.  The idea of camera less film making blows my mind, because, first of all we’re dealing with actual film and not tape, and also there is no digital involvement in this process. 

I get to enter a whole new world and think no thoughts to what I am doing; I just do, wherever the music leads, like a euphoria clouding my mind, leaving me unable to think of or connect to the masses of the outside world, but only to go deep inside my being to bring out something new.  Not new to the universe, but new to me and my way of creating.

An outsider would think that the elementary approach to camera less film making as not of scholarly work.  I would say tell that to the Brakhage’s and Deren’s of the world and many other types of artist, tell them that their way is wrong, and then try and give them a mathematical formula on how they are supposed to create, it would make those people, including myself, wither a die, because in due time scholars and critiques would have sucked the life out of true creativity. 

Poetry writing classes took the place of my music classes, and now six by one is taking the place of poetry, amongst all of the critical studies and time consuming readings, six by one allows me to let my mind go further than an intellectual theory.