Breaking Boundaries

This is my first entry to this 'My Look Forward', kind of editorial of Film Factory. First entry can only be once. Today has been a day when also something else happened and caused me to think of past. So my first editorial deals with past, but not only. It sketches also a structure to a film I hope might be possible to make someday - by me or someone else.

My idea of cinema is kaleidoscopic: interacting different layers - layers of time or events in different places, or episodes in lives of people. Even complex structures are today possible to carry out technically at a reasonable price when the production is carefully planned. Well planned is half made, it is said.

Creativity means always breaking boundaries. It means failures and forgetting, new beginnings and new roads. It is important to remember that I have a right to make my own mistakes, we all have. History will be the final judge weather they really were failures or just seemed to be.

We all grow old and quite many of us shall be gaga, that is to lose the ability of  rational thinking. This is the basis of my idea of a cinematic structure. I have known many such people during my life, mostly boring and worrying, maybe even aggressive demented old ones. And I have also known some that happily adventure in the past day to day quite randomly entering different periods of their life. These delusions seem to be vivid and recreative bringing happy moments of reunion when persons long gone are reborn in the deteriorating brain. Their childlike acceptance to relive these flashes is exhilarating - strange choice of word maybe of such a tragic process leading inevitably to death, but somehow it is a process very merciful.

Now my idea was to make a movie of this mind and it's wanderings. The person in question has had an interesting life crossing the paths of many people in different historical situations. The person has seen war and the birth of modern industry, has met losses and gained experiences, has lived in different places... Imagine the rich tapestry that could be woven of this material and at random order. But in the end the audience has  shaped as a whole the puzzle presented to them. If the scheme works... there is always that 'if'.

This idea is worth developing, in my opinion, and I shall have a notebook for it and maybe later a folder, when material is accumulating. So I have one more plan! With a little help from my friends... a little? Well, maybe a lot!