Monday, 4 January 2010
Sunday, 3 January 2010
Yasujirō Ozu
When ever my films are shown, people often ask me about Ozu.
"Your obviously influenced by him, but what makes such a young person so interested in him?"
"Ozu portrays a culture that's so different from your own, how can you relate to his work?"
...Etc...
I've always struggled to answer these kind of questions, I think it may have something to do with my general lack of cinematic intellect. I seem to love the same kind of cinema intelligent people love, but due to the fact I'm not an intellectual myself...I find it hard to verbally articulate my appreciation for the films I'm so influenced by...More so with Ozu for some reason
Maybe when I'm older I'll be able to answer these questions more conventionally, but until then the only way I've been able to express my love for Ozu is through video.
I guess its kind of like a baby painting a picture of his mum and dad before actually being able to say "mum" or "dad".
There's always a bit (or a lot) of Ozu in all my vlogs and films...but these two vlogs I made especially to convey my admiration for him.
Whenever I see an Ozu film I experience a kind of phantom nostalgia...Like viewing a past memory I forgot. Ozu made films how I see my everyday life...my earliest memories have always played back in my mind as if they were painted by Ozu himself.
"Your obviously influenced by him, but what makes such a young person so interested in him?"
"Ozu portrays a culture that's so different from your own, how can you relate to his work?"
...Etc...
I've always struggled to answer these kind of questions, I think it may have something to do with my general lack of cinematic intellect. I seem to love the same kind of cinema intelligent people love, but due to the fact I'm not an intellectual myself...I find it hard to verbally articulate my appreciation for the films I'm so influenced by...More so with Ozu for some reason
Maybe when I'm older I'll be able to answer these questions more conventionally, but until then the only way I've been able to express my love for Ozu is through video.
I guess its kind of like a baby painting a picture of his mum and dad before actually being able to say "mum" or "dad".
There's always a bit (or a lot) of Ozu in all my vlogs and films...but these two vlogs I made especially to convey my admiration for him.
Whenever I see an Ozu film I experience a kind of phantom nostalgia...Like viewing a past memory I forgot. Ozu made films how I see my everyday life...my earliest memories have always played back in my mind as if they were painted by Ozu himself.
Winter Dreams out of failed films
I was trying to put together a film about the black country canals (stone cross to west brom) but at the moment it seems like it was a bit of a failure. As a result I used some of the footage to make a vlog called "winter dreams". Its not so much that it was based on a dream, but more on a "nut shell" vision I had for the original film.
The original film was meant to be a narrative, but due to my vlogs usually being visual poems I cut out the footage that I felt was "not pretty". This left the vlog making little sense in terms of narrative, however I felt it created a nice cinematic portrait of the black country canals.
The only reason I wanted to make the original film in the first place was to give me an excuse to capture the poetic beauty of the canals. So all in all I guess it worked out fine...
The original film was meant to be a narrative, but due to my vlogs usually being visual poems I cut out the footage that I felt was "not pretty". This left the vlog making little sense in terms of narrative, however I felt it created a nice cinematic portrait of the black country canals.
The only reason I wanted to make the original film in the first place was to give me an excuse to capture the poetic beauty of the canals. So all in all I guess it worked out fine...
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