Reflections On Distracted: “The Meeting Point – An Artistic Experience”
“it’s only the execution that counts” – Jean Renoir on filmmaking.
Cinema happens when the intention of the filmmaker meets reality, and it happens only then.
That vision that the director sees in their mind’s eye? It’s not a vision. That thing in their mind is not a vision; it’s the films they’ve seen congealing together to create an impression, and it’s a cliché, and it’s boring. It’s definitely not a vision. It’s certainly not cinema, for cinema is created only at the meeting point of intention and reality.
There’s too much going on in a single frame to imagine it all in advance, each frame is an organism and it must be allowed to live – by trying to control everything in the frame, the director is strangling it, and, if he persists, he will kill it. No, the frame must be allowed to live, the action within it must be allowed to unfold as it will, that meeting of intention and reality must be allowed to happen freely. To do this is to capture the source creative moment within the frame, and, as such, it will be present in the finished film: the viewer then experiences this creativity for him or her self, they are infected by it, and they become artists too. In the end, this is what I want to achieve in cinema.
ADDENDUM
A further reflection: while working on my new script, Composure, I have realised that the images I see in my mind’s eye are simply conceptualisations of the scene. They exist to help me think about the scene and develop it. However, how relevant they will be when production actually starts is debatable. Once we have the actors cast, the locations, the mood and atmosphere of the production, these will all feed into the creative process, and those mind’s eye images may easily be forgotten.
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