ADULTS short film: more music
“kids on the run” by the tallest man on earth
“dead hearts” by dead man’s bones
“pulling your weight” by the radio dept
ADULTS short film: inspiration
i’ve spent a lot of time thinking and dreaming about my upcoming project “ADULTS.” visuals and daydreams of what will end up in the film are constantly flowing. it’s distracting. the hard part now is grabbing hold of those things and making something out of them. daydreaming is the easy part. making it all work is what separates the novice from the artist. i’m hoping to be the latter.
one of the ideas we cling to here at elevation is “eating the fish and leaving the bones.” that is the process i’m in now, and i really believe in it. stealing and aggregating. gathering and stockpiling. whether it’s ideas or distinct visuals or just colors i am throwing it all into this landfill. filmmaking is very much a subtractive process. cutting away the excess. starting with a slab, an idea, and refining and refining until it is something. something that lives on it’s own. has a life of it’s own. i create it, and set it free.
i always fight and wrestle with what makes something “good” or what makes something especially “not good” when it comes to film. i am convinced that it’s really not one thing. filmmaking, to me, is really just a sequence of decisions. the good filmmakers just make more right decisions than others. you have to know where to cut.
that said, i am definitely not to the refining process yet. i am very much in the stockpiling stage. with that in mind, here’s some inspiration i’ve come across in the past few months and weeks. there will be plenty more to come.
//music
“atmosphere” by joy division [the anthem of this piece. a huge driving force behind the vision.]
“do your best” by john maus
“mistaken for strangers” by the national
“kettering” by the antlers
//movies
“hunger”
“brick”
//photography
