So I’ve recently started pursuing a
film-making course piloted through the ES Volunteer Centre.
1st session
was full of very efficient and practically helpful teaching, but – and this is more observation
than criticism per se-- surprising how
little in the way of thinking ‘about’ the effects film wants to create in terms
of providing an ethical justification for ‘what’ to create.
Quite Ayerian, rather than metaphysical; ‘ that of which teaching may speak ( itself
maybe more Wittgenstein ) let it, and beyond that let such matters not intercede
and soon. It’s left me thinking ‘how does society conceive the
practice of film-making”.
As narrative expression, artistic experimentation along a spectrum of possibilities, as ‘curative’
tp rectify the excesses of market –driven
utilitarianism in line with the directed or self-forming community arts
activities more commonly associated with
heritage festivals, plastic arts,
town-music etc : there were a disproportionate number of ‘middle-aged’
people there, using this not only as a
sideline but, in anecdotal terms, as a sort of replenishment of their
existential matter in some way; a shot at authenticity.
More thoughts on this to follow
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