Getting older and working in design
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Joined this board many years ago when i was still in college studying painting and graphic design.
I slowly drifted away from painting and the past 12 years worked as Director of Photography on music videos, commercials and feature films. Good pay, but there is no job security as i never know what' i'll be doing 2 months from now. In the process i've made a number of award winning shorts and music videos and in the past year finished a feature-length doc that tries to push the boundaries. It was an artistic bet that we've won and financial bet that we didn't. The film's artistry brought in a very rich benefactor that wants to finance personal projects - so technically i'm employed for next year or so on the next film. This taught me that on big and complex projects the rewards are not often immediate or apparent. Sometimes the reward comes from an unlikely place. I always had this uneasy feeling that film is the medium of the "masses" but thanks to digital revolution the film transformed into much more intimate medium and this is revitalizing. At 35, I know i'll never be doing blockbusters (unless paid to film it) as i have no interest with pop culture, i know i'll be making small intimate films that get experience as if reading a poem. This is not only fine with me but actually very desirable: i don't want to affect mindless mass of people but rather a few select people who have desire to dig deeper. I played with going back to painting but i simply have no patience. Moreover, as i'm an intellectual procrastinator trying to dig at an issue to such depths that with time it stops being exciting i would never paint but rather think about it. This you can't do with film, there is a specific date when you start shooting and that day you HAVE to start making decisions (and learn to live with those decisions).- Have you considered going back to college to study paragraphs?fadein11
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