Update Back in the Saddle
Sorry, I have been out of touch dear supporters(kick starter, and otherwise) and friends.I have been working on editing jobs to “pay the bills” for the last month. I haven’t quit my day jobs but as a freelance editor it is flexible. I am back in L.A now and fully committed to getting through the massive archival transfers. We still need more support both financial and just physical (scanning, watching, helping me move stuff). It is just me and my producer and sometimes help for a day or two. It’s hard and lonely at times to be honest. The sound of the reel to reel 16mm viewer spinning and the cassette tapes of mostly bands like Bread, The Beach Boys stuff Carl would have listened to.
Picking Gravity as my first feature with no film school training was insane. In retrospect it was kind of a bad choice, that said I didn’t have a choice. It chose me. I didn’t choose it, but I loved the footage and the story and that was that. It was LOVE.
There have been so many points during this process that my family and friends must have thought I was loosing a grip on reality, well, perhaps. I think filmmaking is at best barely contained chaos.
I am here working to contain chaos… this is my letter from the eye of the storm.
In the early eighties Carl Boenish coined the acronym “BASE” (standing for Buildings, Antenna, Span, and Earth, the objects jumped) and invented a sport. Carl was the catalyst behind modern BASE jumping; an electrical engineer and filmmaker who believed that BASE jumping would allow mankind to overcome artificial limitations. He religiously chronicled the early days of BASE in beautiful 16mm film, often with cameras mounted to the jumpers’ heads. He saw BASE as the next amazing thing to film. Subscribe via RSS.
