From Here to Where?

Whoever is following my blog unfortunately I have disappointed you for a very long time. Basically I was not quite clear what the purpose of this blog should be or should become. I still don't know to be honest.

Nevertheless, maybe there are some things that could be valuable to be communicated to friends or people that are just simply interested in topics that I discuss.

So, what I'm doing at the moment is basically very much being caught up in teaching, teaching about communications and how to apply media theory to media productions, for example how to interpret the television and film culture of the last 30 years and earlier.

I'm very much interested in exploring the audiovisual language of important directors. For example, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, and various others have influenced me profoundly.

I'm also working on a film script at the moment for a short or documentary. Probably it will be only a short film called Shadows. Inspired by the the cinematic work of Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia I would like to walk in his footsteps. However, I'm trying to use his techniques to communicate a different content, less bleak yet strong.

I enjoy his slow camera movements, the intensity of his emotions. I am not sure how that can be reproduced in the current world of "YouTubianism".

I recognize how important this is to make a larger audience familiar with these kind of ideas. So, hopefully, sometime I will be able to present some snippets on this blog going into that direction.

Andrei Tarkovsky is absolutely extraordinary in visual communication of emotions. Emotions that touch the human soul, not just the Russian, but the human soul that is sensitive to profound questions of existence.

A good place to start is

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/index.html

More soon!