When I pitched my 495 project to Andre, I noted that it was a work that was part of larger exploration of a particular thesis of religion. Prior to my 495, I had co-directed Baptism with Michelle, a found-footage short that explored the abstract beauty of the act of baptism, and I wrote a paper for a class detailing how one can look at the first chapters of the old testament within a poetic frame of reference.
Recently, I submitted a short paper to a frame analysis contest that again touched on my own personal refletions on religion. It won an honorary mention award and can be found here. After going over it again in the last few days and doing two sweep over edits, I'm reasonably proud of it as well. I wish this was the version of the paper that I had actually turned in. The first version's arguments were a little muddled and confused. This feels more accurate to how I actually feel and to what I want to express.
As a final note, The Holistic marks one chapter in a whole book full of these reflections. The next two films I'm planning on making are:
1. "Tower of Babel" A cameraless painted film project that will explore an abstract recreation of the words of mankind cascading down the Tower of Babel.
2. "Untitled Holistic Follow-Up: Nostalgia" I have a lot of interview footage that I didn't use this time around, and a lot of digital footage too (I'm pretty much exhausted the "unique" shots in my film reserves, if not the total runtime). Most of the interview footage actually had to do with religion and nostalgia. I think it was a 2:1 ratio of nostalgia footage to death footage. In any case, I plan to go back to these interviews at some point (I couldn't even find a place for Ed in this film! He's got to go in the second one) and create a follow up to The Holistic. I suppose I probably can't call it The Holistic Part II can I...
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