Caveh Zahedi
films biography interviews news orders
On Writing

Last night, I got stoned and wrote the article for Film Comment that I had been putting off. I wrote it in one sitting, and I wrote it with pleasure.

Looking at the words on the page, I suddenly entered the writing space. Time stopped, and I felt like I was channeling a voice that was not my voice, but rather language's voice. A voice made of everything that has ever been said, and continuing to speak, wanting to say more.

The voice of language is an endless voice. It is not a person's. It is communal, like our thoughts.

Cinema is also a language, and also has a voice. As filmmakers, we are trying to listen to the voice that is already speaking, that has been speaking before we were born and that will continue to speak after we are gone. We are trying to hear what the voice is saying, and to channel, and to write it down. We are trying to capture the changing flux of existence, and to freeze it, to make it visible, before it changes, and then changes again.




Comments

I once got stoned and thought my cat was a dog. But I never wrote about it. You're an idiot. Cheers.


I lol'd when I read the first two sentences. What's Gavin Smith gonna think if he sees this?

Congratulations on passing 100,000, Caveh.


Yes, makes perfect sense, I mean it. As you might know it or not but Jack Kerouac called this:
"recording the flow as it already exists intact in the heart", it's the voice when you're in tune, relaxed, and the self-censoring part of your brain has finally shut up.
My web site's: HungryARTISTDVDMedia.com, an inspirational site for entrepreneurial filmmakers it features, besides stuff on my DV trilogy, essays on creativity, production and distribution from a philosophical view, and coverage on a John Cassavetes Retrospective I produced once.
By the way, we're already friends on MySpace, but really check out my site when you get a chance, though I know you're crazy busy, it's something I think you might appreciate and could spread the word about in small ways perhaps.
Take Care Caveh,
Gabriella
Hungry Artist DVD Media



Trackback (ping URL)


Post a Comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

NAME
EMAIL
URL
COMMENTS
(HTML allowed)


Remember personal info?

contact