Film as art

Art is a rebellion. A way of showing honesty of how great and/or ugly us human beings can be. Art is not about being, its about doing. What art does is more than what it actually is. What is a photograph or painting or a movie? Nothing more than a glimpse into a life. What the media can do is potentially change a life.

Art can be subjective. Art can be whatever the people that feel it want it to be. Art is an extension of being a human being. Its the part of us that strives to say, "We are here, we were here, we will continue our existence."

Film is art. It may not always be artistic but it does have value. A breadmaker is an artisan, and so a filmmaker is considered a specialized talent too. A camera is a simple machine. It captures a moment in time. The function is what sets it apart from say, an alarm clock. Photography itself is still new, maybe only two hundred years old. Its still in its infancy stages. The medium changes, it evolves over time. The artist holding the camera, pointing it at an object...their need is the same. To show. To prove. To defy something or even nothing. That is an artist making art.

A film I created recently reminds me of this. Any film is incriminating evidence of me. I knew I wanted to capture beauty that I see with my own eyes. Unluckily(or luckily however you might see it) the beauty is harder to capture than it looks. Something that looks spectacular in real life may only look marginally nice in film. Its my goal to show that subject in all its glory, even if there are ugly moments in them because that is what film does. It shows the truth.

And that is part of the charm of moviemaking.