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KODAK SUPER 8 FILMMAKING CHALLENGE
Director(s): Jamie Hull
I made the "the tears of things" while thinking about the quote by Rilke. The film for me was a father exploring the outer spaces and inner spaces of the daily day or days in my daughters everyday life; the delights and sometimes frustrations and the incongruity of those spaces. There were times when she sometimes seems elated and joyful but was somewhat displeased or forlorn on the inside. What was my role as father with a camera, filmmaker, and conversely what was I experiencing in these spaces, sometimes very much absorbed in her moment and sometimes despondent and introspective, sometimes looking out into the vast expanses beyond. The use of superimposition in camera was meant to invoke the conflict of motion and emotion... Along with the contrapuntal drone sound track, that we are "the tears of things"resonates with "the mortal things"... A sadness and sorrow of things passing... Like I will die, she will someday pass, but we have the chance at all these itinerant wanderings and ephemeral moments in between. There is the beauty of the child and the brutality of the world, my nihilist affirmations and my spiritual re-affirmations... our dialectal fears and the omni-experience of wonderment, a slender statement to a poetic sense of existence, and all the while knowing we are temporary guests.
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