Inspiration

A good filmmaker friend of mine recently emailed me to congratulate the completion of PRAXIS. i met him a few years ago at the IFP in New York when i was promoting the script for THE DEAD SOLDIER, and back then he had completed his first feature. he said that this point of the production was the most frustrating time - when you've completed the film and you're sending it out to festivals and simply waiting, and waiting and waiting. there are no guarentees that anyone will like the film, or will it get into a festival, or how it's received. PRAXIS is currently in this state. and yes, it is incredibly frustrating.

i totally agree that PRAXIS seems like it's in a bit of limbo - the cast and crew screening months ago went incredibly well, and the film was well received by those who were fortunate to see it on the big screen. but a lot of that excitement has kind of worn off, and now its a whole new ballgame.

fortunately, what has been keeping me interested in filmmaking is finding inspiration in new ideas and new things to develop. I recently saw this video "Walls" by a band called Now Its Overhead, and i totally dig the animation of static images with motion graphics. creating a lot of the motion graphics for PRAXIS in After Effects got me interested in a whole new realm of creative possibilities, which is a combination of film, narrative, art, experimental, graphics, design, etc...i love the way that the video is done, and i find it incredibly inspiring to watch how the combination of images and music convey different emotions and feelings.

you have to have a pretty thick skin to be able to make films. and you also have to find things that inspire you and spur on the creative juices. i think it's important at this stage of production (more like promotion of PRAXIS) to keep me busy on other smaller projects that keep driving the imagination, and filmmaker's need to create anything that is visual.

as for PRAXIS, the film festival submissions continue, and the promotion continues, and the work keeps going, and going, and going...