I’ve been working day and night editing a documentary entitled The Purpose of Life is Rice… Wink for an upcoming film festival put on my Pivot Legal Society and Simon Frasier University.
It’s a character documentary shot in first person by a subject named Dance Crowkiller. In large part it’s a retaliation documentary against a fairly recent middle class judgment documentary that seeks to make people who fall outside the normal gradient of human behavior adhere to a specific set of lifestyle guidelines.
Dance was featured in the documentary entitled The Devil Plays Hardball where they gave mentors 10 months to fix a homeless person. However, I took issue with the documentary becuase they portrayed Dance in a very negative light. Dance lives ON my street. He lives against a telephone pole about 5 feet from the curb. He’s an incredibly intelligent, generous, funny and widely respected individual. I’m not going to give any of the details of our film away, but I think this idea is interesting becuase it gives Dance an opportunity, not to defend himself, but to allow people who would otherwise be too scared or judgmental to sit down with him and get to know him, to have a peak into his life for 30 minutes and listen to him talk, watch him work on his sculptures, and travel with him through the city on his little adventures. Something the other documentary not so accidentally forgot to do.
On the topic of breaking away from templates, and playing with the medium of video, I took a break last night to watch Julio Medem’s film Chaotic Ana. You can watch the trailer for the film below. It’s beautiful.
