Intent doesn’t matter?
- Without constraint you can’t have creativity. Most creative pursuits are very constrained, eg music, film – narrative, convention, etc.
- 52 Tuesdays – heavily constrained but effective practice. Film review: http://www.movieburger.com.au/review/52-tuesdays-review-10161/
- How lists offer alternative ways of making to narrative.
- Noticing practices in documentary – lists and how we look at that
- Relations – our clips mean things not in themselves but by virtue of the relationships that emerge from Korsakow
- What the filmmaker does rather than what they mean – essay films can mean pretty much anything, but by looking at what it does we can work out if it is indeed an essay film.
- What makes a genre and what makes a style? Do these definitions matter? As Hannah mentioned, it’s more about thoughts being expressed through film rather than what the film is about.
- Intent doesn’t matter. The author’s intention cannot preserve context or meaning. Context can never be preserved: that is why we can look at films, TV and artwork differently than audiences at the time.
- There is going to be stuff in our works that we can’t see – goes back to the unconscious.
- Completely associative experiences of the world: eg, we don’t remember things linearly, such as birthdays. These are complex webs of association.
- There is no such thing as industry-standard. Change is too fast.