"You remind me today of a small, Mexican chihuahua"
Where am I from?
Glasgow
My favourite film makers:
Michel Godard, Gondry & Charlie Kaufman, Ingmar Bergman, Jeunet, Svankmejer
My favourite films:
Synechdoche, New York, Amélie, Goodbye Lenin! The Edukators, Une Femme est Une Femme
My website
http://wherestherealsky.wordpress.com
This was one of the first conversations I had with my aunt June. She was the only of my aunts that had to introduce herself to angsty teens, and not to the adorable children that were my cousins and I.
I can't believe how much has changed since that conversation. Last time I spoke to her, I was in the middle of working at a film festival, as a filmmaker. So what changed? I realised that I didn't watch films when I was younger because the films I was exposed to were terrible, Hollywood drivel. Now, I know it can be an artform. Filmmaking is special - it's for the obsessive, megalomaniacs with over active imaginations out there in the world. It's for people that realise you can't distill life into one thing or another. Films are the marriage of everything amazing about the senses, which we need to celebrate. Oh dear, what a pile of pretentious drivel...
I guess right now I want to get over my fear of screenwriting, or trust someone else to do it.
Submitted for the assignment Getting Started on 2010-03-09 03:35:10
