Saturday, July 4, 2009

Out of time

I allowed myself about ten minutes to sit down and reflect on the last nine months today.

I filmed it.















In a way that only someone that thinks about movies all day could feel, I was almost brought to tears looking at the ocean and thinking about all it has come to represent to me. It felt like I was drowning and flying and exploding all at the same time. And I could hear Aaron Copland´s Rodeo playing underneath the crash of the waves.

Ive been telling everyone that I shall return within a year with the final product of the last nine months. Its so easy to say but I know from experience that this is the tip of the iceberg and there remains much more work to do than has already been done.

Nonetheless, I cant help but say, "haHA" thinking about the afternoon after I almost drowned here three years ago when I first considered this project. I´m feeling a lot of emotions today but I think the main one would be the emotion that most closely resembles the image of a ship after a storm--both floating on and nearly demolished by the ocean. The documentary is of course the ocean, and our relationship is one that I reccomend.