thinking about form

Apart from the inherent form of a video medium, like shots, action, pace and sequencing i have been thinking about the presentation of a video as well.Honestly, the work that has moved me the most has been traditional cinema, in the sense it is viewed on a 2 dimensional screen.
Im currently interning under Ranbir Kaleka, someone who's work has inspired me for some time and have begun to think about presenting the work in different ways, i.e an installation of some kind. He has concerned himself with finding another language combining a painted image and a cinematic image creating something more than the sum of these two.

on the other hand, rationality is another thing i find myself questioning as a result of this internship. All my previous work has been rational to a large extent and i would like to explore the other side as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dExgetxDEZI

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.


Krzysztof Kieslowski 

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

Krzysztof Kieslowski 

“Let everything that's been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy, but just the friction between their souls and the outside world. And most important, let them believe in themselves. Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.” 
― Andrei Tarkovsky

A short film about love- Kieslowski

the last week was the first time i watched any of kieslowski's films. I watched two, but ill talk about a short film about love here.
This was the first time i actually felt deeply connected to a character in a film and i found myself getting into tomek's skin and bones.
From thinking of him as a creep in the beginning to finally ending up rooting for him was quite a journey that i felt i was taken on.
I felt the narrative structure and the events that happened were themselves put into the story with a sense of intuition.there are some things which we all do and relate to, like putting a block of ice to your ear when your ear gets hot, and the next second, munching on that very piece of ice.
In terms of my story building, i took from it this very "freedom" that comes through in this story. Of putting in events which you want to put in ( all of them deeply telling events ) regardless of "that couldnt have happened?how can a guy do that?".
People do strange things and when you get to know a person enough to like them, which is what happened with me getting to know the characters, you bear with them even if they do unexpected things, like tomek slitting his wrist. you want to understand why they would have done that instead of making a judgement and forming opinions
A lot of character was added to the story in its cinematography. the actions, which i see in all european films were slow and allow you to get sucked into a meditative pace, and somehow highlight the soft spoken nature of the characters. they dont tell you anything,
The lighting was beautiful, which is what i need to work on to move towards a succesfull project.