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How many paths are there in the very first shot of what you call a 'movie', or in an opening line of dialogue? How many meanings to be unearthed? Does it already have a theme? A character? A story? What is specified, and what possibilities remain in what is not?


 

Where I come from, the point of making art is to find out. If I were to answer all those questions in advance with some agenda, the potential in that first moment — in every moment — would collapse into a narrow means to a preconfigured end. This is unfathomable to my kind. Why strike off in search of a thing, the nature and location of which you've always known?

No. A first shot is all the method I need. I have long lost count of the worlds I've wandered, and there still awaits, behind every new thought or image, a corridor of the mind with no other entrance, and with an exit where there has never been before. If you look for it.

          

 
my first shot is yours

I am a social sort of traveller. So the one thing I want more than to find and take those exits, is to take you with me. I am also a stranger here. You live on this planet, and you have presumably taken photos in its vicinity. They're probably just a click away. Got a great opening shot for a short film, or other work? Show me. And I may just show you how it might connect us to each other, and lead us to ... well, if I knew that already, it wouldn't be much of an Experiment.
 
 
  
 
 



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