Multiple temporalities of film production

Work in progress

The project will be a result of patchwork. This will be a film, with a soundtrack that hides strong wind blows, with the insertions from an interview that we recorded in English about the history of the place. As simple as possible. And even this now seems to me a complicated task of cutting.

This will also be an attempt to turn my inability to fix the camera to the tripod into an artful gesture J

Now I see that to make a comfortable for the audience shooting and keep it on the level of observational cinema is actually a very difficult technical task for the cameraman.

But at the same time my poor skills help to decide what to include into 6-8 minute film from more than an hour of footage. We have something about 10 minutes altogether of a good material. And there are only 5 and a half minutes of interview.

But after I was comforted with this shortage, a new challenge came.

It turned out that this is actually a lot! It seems to me that at the time of cutting the timeline of the footage is multiplying. It is as if you are finding yourself suddenly in a different time scale. It is certainly a different temporality. On every minute of the final film you spend hours of your time. Finally, 7 minute film will be a condensed version of the time that equates to several days spent on its production. Interesting, that with ethnography it is the same. You spend a year in the field, to remember several hours of really important action, and then you spend years to write about these hours. You jump between these various temporalities.