Tag: film business

film manifesto no.1

Posted by Lisa Gornick – April 16, 2009

Film Manifestos – are they written when you’re feeling depressed, excited or a little hot? (when the weather’s changed) I wrote this yesterday when it was sunny and I was inside. Writing it lifted my spirits. I think I could get into it.

How to write a new narrative that is not based on our fertile potential.

This kind of narrative, the one that exists in the mainstream and a lot in the non mainstream, gets bored of women over 35 (pushing it to 40) and men over 60 (or never).

It dwells on romance and the family as its core value.

(Here’s the  manifesto bit)

If we want society to find itself again (before it’s too late) we have to make films and tv that are about strangers looking after each other.

Not perfect people we’d like to procreate with.

(I have been and probably will be guilty of this)

and now for a drawing to think this through with:

manifesto - first of many

drawing out loud

Posted by Lisa Gornick – April 14, 2009

thought to try and get a drawing response going with things i read on other film blogs…so here’s my first go – a sentence or two that geoff gilmore said here about the future of film finance gave rise to my pen thinking


here you can read the article

the future is ok

introducing the subject of the piece

Posted by Lisa Gornick – March 13, 2009

climate change films

the analysis of film

Posted by Lisa Gornick – February 14, 2009

film analysis

I film akin to the same process of psychoanalysis?
a darkened place where you attempt to lay your soul bare.
and how you place things, or edit, and the very tone you use – All is very interesting/revealing.

But films that make it to the market are so often about the same things.

So that films that maybe explore a lone woman in her sixties thinking about rain will be laughed out of existence.

I suppose a difference is in both practices’ dissemination – the intrusion of the market place.
And meanwhile the films that get analyzed on a large scale tend to be the ones in the market place.

Think of all the dreams we have yet to have.