Back where I belong...
I forgot why I got into this whole thing... I never wanted to make traditional "films"... Lost Highway was the the "film" I saw in 1996 that changed my life and made me want to make "films"... It excited me because it was like nothing else I had seen before...it was more like a dream... I want to live and work in dreams because reality suX...
So I was just talking to my friend who is a mega artist extraordinaire... I gave him a copy of the excellent short film "Maquina" I met the director Gabe Ibanez in Brazil... Maquina is very dream like and awesome... So as I was talking to my friend who will soon start making moving image thangs said "these are the kind of movies I want to make, where everything isn't explained" and just then I remembered why I got into this whole thing...
Because of Sundance and sales reps and distributors and all this and that I forgot why I started in the first place... Making regular films doesn't really interest me...I want to do something more...something different... something closer to a dream than a film...
Then I found this quote that I had at the start of my first feature film that I made in 2001 "Ophidian"... Here is the quote...
"Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so is consciousness. Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking, the truth is- The unknown" Aleister Crowley
Yeh so as I'm working on the script for my next film I remembered this... If your hellbent on sticking to traditional status quo film conventions ask yourself this... Whats the logline for your life? Your existence? The feelings that make you want to live forever or die tomorrow? Quantify, quantize and rationalize that.... If you CAN I definitely don't want to see your "films"
I will not simplify or dumb down my work because the masses do not have the emotional intelligence to comprehend it... I will keep saying what I have to say in my language... There are people out there who understand it perfectly...We are the extreme minority... We are the Strange ^^Brought to you by professional weirdo M dot Strange.