As a student who took experimental video and who is taking cinema theory right now, this film made a lot of sense to me.
It was nice to see important people in the industry talking about their experiences.
I really like the fact that everybody was talking about experimenting and various serendipitous experiences they had.
I watched a talk by David Lynch couple of weeks ago, he was asked if he has any experimental film makers he liked a lot and his answer is "film in a way is an experiment because its giving action and reaction until the thing feels correct and this thing of intuition is a tool for the filmmaker". I think he was just trying to get away with not answering this kind of answer to avoid admitting he was highly inspired by Maya Deren and Kenneth Anger while making Blue Velvet and Mulholland DR.But I kind of agree with what he was saying. I believe that most things can't be planned before hand while shooting a movie and most part of the movies even though they are well planned are shaped in the set in that specific time of the day with all of the changes in the location no one in the set can really control.
I think that is one of the most exciting things about filmmaking. That's why I'm not good at working with storyboards. I just like to take my camera find a location and start shooting and if you are a good film maker and have a good eye for lighting, movement and composition you can make great movies by trusting your instincts.
One of the most inspiring thing in the movie was what Conrad Hall said about In cold Blood "The visuals were crying for him".
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