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Back to the Project
Technical difficulties, now resolved, have kept me off the blogpath for a while.
I taped interviews as recently as October. Grant funds are spent, and I'm looking (wishing) for new partners and supporters, as I consider the great amounts of very fine digital video before me. These are the cold and lonely BrainWork days of winter. Picture me in fights with myself: battling over how this project is the same -- and different -- than the one I envisioned yesterday.
If it were only like a house-raising.
If I only had the plans and the budget that are as solid as native stone, with a "task and talent" list and sublists -- all promising a great product that meets its audience more than half-way; a film that leaps off the screen. I'd send out invitation to the BrainWork party and we'd have that sucker built in time for the Saturday matinee.
Filmmaking -- and life -- isn't like that. Yet.
Back to it. Write me a note if you feel like it.
At first, the old-timers were real happy that a bunch of city slickers were willing to buy their old farms for "good money," but then they began
to see that the market price for land out here in the hills was starting to rise. They also had some problems with communal living. They equated
it with "communism" and they had started to hear about "free love" and drugs. They, for the most part, had always been against the Federal
government and the "Revenuers" and so didn't see any problem with with them growing things in the garden that they intended to smoke.
I, personally, came to know just about all of them and feel that they were a fresh insight and perhaps a renaissance for our little part of
Heaven creating music, crafts and new life.