This film looks to be a textural and visceral viewing experience.

I want you to want to touch the pages of the book, to breath in the colors of the leaves, of the world I am presenting to you, to get lost in its’ suspended still.

I have spent a seemingly overwhelming amount of time in preproduction, but within that has been, asides from a gigantic learning curve, a nurturing of a sensibility that i have never extracted to such a full extent before.

If I am successful, there will be no question in your- the audiences- mind of the unification of the animated and real world. Not because I were to have recreated to the highest level of realism the set- no, that is the opposite of my intention nor desire. I am striving for unity not in imitation but in the visual language being used. The approach to the objects and movements being consistent, thus translating to a bigger whole.

A huge influence, I am now coming to see, has been Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love. the art direction in the film, mixed with the pacing and the camera movement makes for one of the most delicious and heartbreaking viewing experiences. It is unabashed cinema: artificial with no pretenses. And i don’t mean any Splenda, artificial sweetener stuff either.

I have never made a film before, and I am not coming in with developed concepts of what a film, and an animated one at that, should be. Not to mean that i dont have ideas, that i haven’t read cinema studies, haven’t analyzed films, but nothing is yet formed in my work. So all this film really strives for, humbly, is unity. I hope it will be successful in creating presence, an environment, ambience.

And, considering that before this film i had never shot on film, worked with actors, shot live action, built puppets, built sets, worked with lighting, shot stopmotion,

unity is a pretty damn big aim.

Of course ultimately, and i think what most if not all films and works of art strive for, is synergy. To have the whole become greater then the individual parts…

We will see. Next post will be purely visual, i promise.