Film is a reductive medium, not too conceptually dissimilar from sculpting.
You start with a mass of substance
and ideas that must be decimated and stripped down to its most basic
components. The most basic components are the most emotionally resonant
elements.
These elements when reassembled
yield something I like to call the organic truth.
The organic truth is not the
literal objective truth, art isn’t objective- its subjective.
The organic truth is ideas and or
concepts that are emotionally honest. They don’t have to be literally and
objectively honest. They only need to ring true for the audience for it to be
the organic truth. That is when
the ideas of a piece are transmitted with maximum narrative efficiency, and
without any other superficial distractions or elements. Movements, shot length,
music and even color (or it’s absence) must be in perfect operational alignment
for the organic truth to be reproduced. Any of those elements occurring out of
sequence destroy the function of the piece and render it of a poor quality.
The
organic truth that cinema delivers is not pretentious, it can be found in
something derided and mocked (like Showgirls)- just as easily as it can be
found in something adored, and beloved.
As a filmmaker and a documentarian
I try to present emotional honesty, even if it’s not literal objective honesty.
Once you distance your self between
the lens of the camera, or the canvas of a screen you loose the immediacy of
reality, editing gives the artist control over movements through space and
time.
The works you create and view are
no longer objectively true, but they can still represent the truth. It is that very truth that can make you
a target for those that traffic in dishonesty.
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