The Total Artist 2.3: Film and Movement

Considering the possibilities of space, time, and most of all - change

Hello friends,

Thanks for your patience about sending this newsletter out a bit late! I was out of the country for a week on what felt like the trip of a lifetime with my best friend from Uni. But I am now back at my computer and able to share the video I was creating for the full moon, moving into a new aspect of our consideration of the possibilities of photography.

In this video…

We are shifting our consideration from still photography to the possibilities of film/cinema, exploring the creative possibilities this can unlock.

This touches on:

• How pictures freeze time, while film connects space and time back together

• Taking some quick inspiration from the world of physics: playing with speed, time, or space/distance to gain new perspective

• How time and change are connected, and what this shows us about our own relationship to these things

• Acknowledging that resisting change can be as important as accepting it

• Letting movement be a catalyst for action, and unblocking the things in the way of our impulse to create

• Recognising your natural internal pace and cultivating more opportunities to inhabit it

• Embracing imperfection to share work in progress

If you are making any interesting discoveries as you consider what film can offer to your life, I would love to hear them!

Access Support: If you have access needs that I’m not currently meeting, please do drop me a line! (The best email is contact@ac-smith.com.) I’d really like to make this project available to anyone who wants to participate.