It sucks when you can't put a film on to relax because the world events & news climate are so crappy. You can't even escape it because its online and new stuff is soaked in it or a pathetic cowardice in facing it. Thats when you put down entertainment and start making art. And you need to study & appreciate art. Art is separate from entertainment in that it should be guaranteed by the state when corporate propaganda rules.
Socialism protects citizens from the state & business while Communism protects the state from business but does Capitalism protect business from the state and the people? People abuse capitalism left & right everyday. Capitalists cheat & exploit consumers and workers (look at China). Communism exploits government employees & civilians (look at Russia). What is the true history of the few societies who practiced Socialism? They turned to the extremism of Communism and Capitalism when, the merits of both make up the halves of Socialism while avoiding the binary conflict by anchoring in the middle. This achieves balance to regulate both sides of human freedom and human employment in a fair trade agreement. We are so steeped in bad deals that society doesn't trust good deals when they see them.
America needs someone making progressive, fair deals where everyone wins. Trump is going in the wrong direction and I think we're losing him mentally. The scope of the job is hitting him and he sees how much intellect, support & analysis this takes. He's not a mentalist or layered thinker. He doesn't have any dimensional theory of politics or economics or infrastructure or epistemology or deep philosophical moralism or science theory. Because he's always been a sheltered rich boy with things handed to him. He's a victim of bad upbringing really. His society and their moral system and outlook is so scary in its coldness, vanity, detachment, ignorance, foolishness and foolery. I think Trump at heart is a rogue clown & petty con man, not as bad as his masters, but definitely their gem and the cog that keeps this ancient empire of evil mind control through dishonest business and monarchical control. He must expose it if he wants to be a hero and save his own skin. Make some kind of deal where you can bring down all of the puppetmasters of American politics. If its Russia then we will have to handle it American style. We have our allies who we've protected from Russia & we have enemies of Russia who need us. Everyone loves America because its more than the people who live there now. Its the heartbeat of the world and a place for everyone who wants to be free. But being an American has lost its identity thanks to off-shore pirates.
These are unsure, tense times for everything. We may been on the eve of total war or on the eve of a tremendous victory for free democracy and democratic freedom. On a fair playing field for every life on Earth from beast to beauty. Our species has forgotten its roots and its original purpose to thrive and spread exploration and unity, not get locked in incestuous in-fighting and the resulting personal unraveling. We are all family and should care about one another. Stop hunting each other and start loving as many lives as you can.
No matter what comes we are the ones God meant to document it. We shouldn't feed it or exploit it. Simply document. Some will put a slant on it, but I just want to present reality's facts as I see them and let the audience agree or disagree. Its hard to do that in Hollywood or even mainstream independent cinema. Go to film school, make no budget camera experiments, vlog, master still photography, keep cinema alive until you are in the position to prove what you got. I've had some hiccups where I could act or write or edit for a good audience of friends & locals. You have to start somewhere and I'm happy at whatever level I can be at. I keep learning but you have to actually practice the craft or you might fall on your face when luck shines on you. And I don't mean filmmakers like Tommy Wiseau or American Movie's Mark Borchardt. They at least made ambitious personal films that are watchable. I mean the great directors likUwe Boll, Lloyd Kaufman, Renny Harlin and I think eventually guys like J.J. Abrams (whose rebooting of Star Trek & Star Wars will sour with age and won't last as long as expected) and I'd even mention Tarantino, Tim Burton and Martin Scorsese. All guys who went too corporate from their indie roots or got a lucky break to start in the majors and didn't have A+ talent yet, so they never had the stroke or trust or support for something more universal or paramount (to use cheap puns). They should not be duplicated when it comes to careering as filmmakers. And not because of their auteurism or ego or uniqueness. But because they were too young & inexperienced. David Lynch should be making films much more frequently but Hollywood has a long memory and only look at past drawing power. These investors don't follow audience tastes. They follow their bank accounts. And thats a bad measurement for which films get produced or not. Totally subvert Hollywood or triumph outside of its system.
Make your movie. Make sure you've studied enough that your film leads to a bigger film. Don't care if it sucks as long as you're getting better and stop sucking. Fight. Speak out. Borrow. Work. Save. Do what yoou have to do to finance a film. That means its only as big as you make it. It can be a film about a fly or spaceship or an island or a bald spot or your depression or your 1st love. Document what you see & someone will want to see what YOU see.
We're waiting on virtual reality or imagining we're in a holographic movie, but we create the dreams with camera, editing, sound, movement. These tools technology gives us make our art into a dreamed reality to help our reality have better dreams. We can also create nightmares to warn them. We are society's psychiatrists. We don't just analyze them, we help them. Don't just medicate them with numbing eye candy and sensory overload. Explain the diagnosis of the symptoms to treat the cause. Earth is sick. Its not just the people. Its our planet. We've abused her too much. She's striking back and we must make amends before she kills all of us. One of the only ways I know to protect myself and those things I love is magic. And not voodoo or witchcraft or Satanic sacrifice magic. Magic originated in writing, craft, recipes, medicine. Its the original art and its in all descendant arts. But its forgotten and hidden by those who profit from it wrongly. But they destroy themselves and magic is set free whenever the evil of untruth mystify it. I only feel comfortable discussing this because I've learned so much about magic from cinema & its the type of cinema I'm interested in making. Spiritual meets technical. That is artistic.
Take what I've learned and use it well and converse with other filmmakers. We're living in a great time to teach yourself to be an artist. Its a personal journey for every artist but so many have walked before so why not learn from them? But remember film isn't the only art. Its just the most conjoined & democratic art besides actual living. Know that they balance and serve each other and movies can't be your entire life. Well, they can be a lot of your time but not all. Well, thats enough for this cinema diary for tonight.
Shoot cameras, not guns.
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