So this is a little piece of nostalgia and of what i know about my grandpa PG (paternal grandfather[ even though he is my mother's father???] ). I origionally made this for an intermedia class, so i was trying out some different stuff that i am not used to, like stop motion, and print transfers, hand painting, and most of the material in this video is dug up from my grandparents dungeony basement... where my grandpa also practiced dentistry. he was quite the famous dentist, i'm finding out... also ginkos were his horticultural passion...and they inhance memory. think about it.
10.23.2006
PG in 3
So this is a little piece of nostalgia and of what i know about my grandpa PG (paternal grandfather[ even though he is my mother's father???] ). I origionally made this for an intermedia class, so i was trying out some different stuff that i am not used to, like stop motion, and print transfers, hand painting, and most of the material in this video is dug up from my grandparents dungeony basement... where my grandpa also practiced dentistry. he was quite the famous dentist, i'm finding out... also ginkos were his horticultural passion...and they inhance memory. think about it.
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I love stop-motion, and esp. claymation, i grew up fascinated by early effects. You'd like my "9-Eleven" film, people consider it shocking, to do a re-enactment, but so is Oliver Stone's "World Trade Centers." I know what gingkos are, I always wondered why Chinese people pick up the berries that most Americans hate the smell, since it has the scent of sour/sweet vomit. They sell these in the Asian markets, but you'll see Chinese people from time to time around campus collecting them in grocery bags. I always wondered, whether the berries have the same memory enhancement quality as the leaves. I used to chew the leaves before mid-terms or finals, or make a tea. I find it ironic how you draw these various known facts about your grandfather into the film. I'm very interested in filming at my family's business back home now, they do paper converting, the warehouse has these 2-ton rolls of paper stacked to the ceiling. I remember climbing them as a kid, even hanging from the rafters or going hand-over-hand to cross from one stack to another, even with 20 feet below you and several meters between resting points. I used to imagine we were in an episode of Scooby-Doo, hearing the rufflin' of paper thinking it was a ghost in the warehouse. There's freighters out back that we used to always think were haunted as well. Behind the plant is the city dump and the Blue River. There's a train track that crosses outside, and my early photography career in high school emerged as a result of this locations and its hidden potential. I think it would be fun to revisit a place "haunted with memories." A man who has moved and lived away from such for so long, to release the nostalgia for such things through a short film tribute. There are so many sights I only wish I could share with my friends here, so they can understand where I grew up, what my childhood was like and how it forged my identity, but I am like a pioneer, venturing far from home on an endless odyssey. My childhood dreams were always to embark on new places, like the National Geographics I collected in stacks and boxes from thriftstores and garage sales, I wanted to be a coorespondent and bring back part of the world through images. I love how you capture the past in a kind of personal museum of artifacts. The stop-motion play with skull and scissors reminds me of "Faust," which I always think when stop-motion comes to mind. well, I hardly need to say this, continue on your course to self-discovery, be your own explorer with your lens and camera as your ship and your ideas and intuition as your voyage. perhaps sometime you can come shoot with me, I'd love the help of a veteran filmmaker vs. this amateur, indie/non-major. Pages are my canvas, words, metal, paint, even food are my medium. film, despite always admiring the works of directors/filmmakers; watching their "making of" caring more about the behind-the-screens, than the big-shot credits and paparrazi stars; I've never thought myself capable of producing my own, but something occured to me, that made me want to be more versatile in media, upgrading from the free-forms I'm used to working with my hands and going digital to reach a crowd in the tech age. broadening my scope and sphere of influence.
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