INSPIRING PRINCIPLES

 

1- In a living film, the idea springs from the director’s vital impulses.

2- The producer must act as an accomplice to such feelings. If no producer can be found, the director must take on the task himself.

3- Complete knowledge of what one wants to communicate, along with the excessive amount of time the realization of the film requires, turns it into a product: living films is against it.

4- Living films feed on the shared learning experience of the director and the rest of the art crew. Awareness of mystery and longing for discovery will enlighten the film.

5- The script must not be closed by the screenwriter, the director nor the producer: it must be alive and free. The three key moments in creation are writing the idea, shooting and editing.

6- The actors help the director create the dialogue while shooting.

7- A living film is an oeuvre, not a product; and the director is an auteur, not a hired technician. Film is art and must be expressed as an act of love towards the audience.

8- The film industry must not manufacture only consumer products with no relevance and little content. Living films must be bright, a source of life.

9- Nobody knows how a living film is going to end, not even the director or the actors. Shooting as the creative act par excellence, combined with the vital sap of its makers, will determine the result.

10- A living film must contain positive energy, imagination and inventiveness, be unpredictable and treat the spectator with respect, as a human being and not as a mere consumer.

11- Dead films, those that are mere products, try to prevent the audience from thinking, and therefore from evolving.

12- The revolution of the new century must be a spiritual one. Filmmaking can help bring it about.