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- ella frances sanders, eating the sun

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Day 15. Editor in quarantine

By Robertas Nevecka

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“She scooped up a laptop and a gray tabby cat and threw a DSLR around her neck before turning to me and saying, ‘This is all you need in life:  a computer, a camera, and a cat.’” (Britt Faulkner on meeting Agnes Varda, 2012)

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“I think you can’t cheat the process by trying to make shortcuts. There really aren’t any shortcuts. You have to evaluate everything as you’re going and the more deeply you get into the material the more you know it and the better you are at retaining or rejecting certain aspects of a scene or a sequence — the emotional life of the film. And that’s one thing, the most important element that I’m constantly aware of: the emotional life. That’s really why we go to the movies.” - Carol Littleton, ACE

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- Mary Lampson, On the Art of Editing via @sundanceorg

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Sister Corita Kent’s Rules 

(http://corita.org/about-corita)

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chance as an ally. the domain of the crocodile. reporting and storytelling. yodeling. the numbers game. have a little damn faith. there is just so much good stuff in here. 

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Journalists, I think, need to listen for people’s troubles, and find the points where they connect to public issues. And they have to be better at that than a broken political system is. From there they can start to rebuild trust.

Jay Rosen

 http://pressthink.org/2016/12/prospects-american-press-trump-part-two/

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moonlight (2016)

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I don’t know what I was expecting when I clicked through to this article, but was pleasantly surprised. A revealing, insightful, and well-written piece, that touches on Kaufman’s desires for more control, while recognizing that his most “successful” works have come from collaboration. This is a personal, but widely-experienced internal tension when working in collaborative mediums, like film. Appreciated hearing him acknowledge and mull over it with such transparency.

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“Empathy is not pity or sympathy ...

Pity, you’re looking down on someone and feeling sorry for them.

Sympathy, you may be looking across at someone and feeling bad for them.

Empathy means getting inside of them, and understanding their reality, and looking at their situation and saying not, “What would I do if I were in their position?”

but, “What are they doing? Why are they doing what they’re doing from the perspective of what they have endured?”

And that is an additional step. There are multiple steps that a person has to take to really be open to that.” -  ISABEL WILKERSON

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Intersections.

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A lot of the time when we are being very, very driven by very specific goals, we’re not doing something as virtuous as we think. We’re actually in flight from uncertainty.

Oliver Burkeman: The Negative Path to Happiness and Success (video + transcript)

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“Gentrification” // Illustration by: Grayson Perry

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When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

Picasso

(via cdixon)

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You can give your audience “2 + 2” but don’t then give them “4.” - Tracy Droz Tragos

Just one of the "documentary lessons learned", as shared by Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning co-director of RICH HILL. Can't wait to see this film!

Full article here via Film Independent

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How Gondry does animation.

To know his process is not so far removed from how I do my own is both encouraging and discouraging. Encouraging because I feel less incompetent. Discouraging because it confirms that it never does get less tedious -- oh, well, that's okay.