How do we do anything in life? How do we walk? How do we digest food? How the hell did we develop language and story telling?
The answer? I don’t have a clue. All I can tell is that we look around us at the objects and landscape and other creatures before us and we take a step into it all. Then another step, and then another step. And pretty soon, we are surviving as a product of our environment and doing so with out even much thought. Each next step is just the impulsive step we want to take.
This has been my experience in the film industry. Everything changes when you least expect it and suddenly there are a new set of objects, landscapes and creatures. All I can do is try to stay in touch with what is before me, and take the step my involuntary impulses tell me that I should take.
This video is my presentation at power to the pixel back in Oct of 2008 and gives you a pretty good snapshot of the steps I’ve recently been taking.
Damn Arin…those are some crazy cool filmmaking hacks. You are deep in the mix. Do you use other handheld HD cameras besides the TX1? I actually just bought the Samsung NV24 which looks like a normal digital still camera but takes killer 720p video. http://www.vimeo.com/4057917
That brings to mind something I read somewhere that was an epiphany for me and turned my life around: “You don’t choose your passion, it chooses you.”
man London was crazy! great presentation Arin!!!
Hi, Arin,
remember me from the Indie festival in Belo Horizonte, Brazil? Was it in 2005 (man, time flies…)?
Well, since the first time I´ve seen Four Eyed Monsters, I´m crazy about this idea of independent distribution. Now I´m writing my masters on it. Reading Peter Broderick´s article on the new world of distribution, I read about F.E.M. and decided to look you up. Great presentation, very inspiring!
You should look up this website I´m studying: http://www.moviemobz.com . Cinema on demand created in Brazil.
Good luck with As the Dust Settles!
Cynthia