Looked at Blue Poles. Looked at the opening of Manhatten. Talked about description versus story. How your work is a thing with its own agency and that it ignores, does not survive, your intent. The role and agency of the writing that you do around and with and for what you make as a way to provide context that helps garner, edge, bound, some of that truculent agency.
Discussed the final assessment. Left as the three films as described. Each film will also have a short written piece made up of three parts:
- what do you want to achieve by doing this? (could be about learning something or could be about what you want the work to do as a film)
- how would you know if you have achieved this? (could be about learning something or could be about what you want the work to do as a film)
- (and after you’ve made it) do you think it/you has done this?
Distributed essays.
Twenty minutes of writing: What do I want to understand between now and the end of the studio? Or, what do I want to learn from doing my final three films? Or, what would I like to understand that making these films will allow? This is open, it is not about the content of the studio but about what you would like these films and their making to be an opportunity for.
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