Here's a glimpse.
I make documentary films in Los Angeles, and spend a lot of time
distributing my work. Over the years my films have been shot using 8mm,
16mm, beta sp and dvcam. Early on I built a 16mm optical printer,
making it easier for me to put on screen what I saw and felt. It was a
way to explore the persistence of vision and expand the viewers sense of
time as a means to see more.
Now I spend days & nights with a 14 pound sony camera and an apple
computer making a straightforward story always in step with the
emotional content first. While perpetual debt seems to be the price for
making films about subjects that matter to me, I think digital cameras
and the editing systems like final cut pro are really a re-distribution
of the wealth, the biggest grant ever given to a filmmaker; this stuff
has turned the brass ring into a mere doorknob to the editing room.
-richard
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