What's Up

So I just found out that my short, Las Perdidas, is going to be screened at the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival next month! We're quite thrilled, because the film is finally picking up speed and generating interest after several earlier rejections. Las Perdidas ended up winning Best Short at the Broad Humor Film Festival in Venice, and it will also be screened at the Rhode Island International Film Fest August 5 - 10. Yay! Getting lots of practice for when Christine, Lucy and I hit the fests for Love 10 to 1. Everything makes a difference when you finally get a good film in your hand.

I'm finally all set up and ready to start editing Diving Lessons. I bought the MacBook Pro and Final Cut, the footage is all converted, I have my new external hard drive, and a heck of a lot more confidence when it comes to all the technical stuff of editing. I've been thinking a lot about the way I chose to shoot Diving Lessons, with long, lingering takes, and I'm starting to think about how to approach the edit. I'm starting to get excited about potentially approaching the edit from the idea of what it looks like when you're sizing a prospective lover up for the first time. like for example, maybe you're having a conversation about a trip you took, but you can't help noticing the way his/her hand ruffled his/her hair, and then you start to think about the back of her/his neck and you fixate on that the whole time he/she's talking rather than on what he/she's actually saying. So the question is how to accomplish that with long master takes? I'm thinking that with digital footage, the ways of doing this could be an interesting experiment. if I'm going to continue to use this film as an homage to the guys of the French New Wave, well then, shouldn't editing be a bit of a quirk? They did invent the jump cut after all...