Jamilo Pitts � Blog Archive � Aged�Beef

Jamilo Pitts � Blog Archive � Aged�Beef

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Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School

Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School



The Rogue Film School is about a way of life. It is about a climate, the excitement that makes film possible. It will be about poetry, films, music, images, literature.

Excerpts of films will be discussed, which could include your submitted films; they may be shown and discussed as well. Depending on the materials, the attention will revolve around essential questions: how does music function in film? How do you narrate a story? (This will certainly depart from the brainless teachings of three-act-screenplays). How do you sensitize an audience? How is space created and understood by an audience? How do you produce and edit a film? How do you create illumination and an ecstasy of truth?

Related, but more practical subjects, will be the art of lockpicking. Traveling on foot. The exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully. The athletic side of filmmaking. The creation of your own shooting permits. The neutralization of bureaucracy. Guerrilla tactics. Self reliance.

Censorship will be enforced. There will be no talk of shamans, of yoga classes, nutritional values, herbal teas, discovering your Boundaries, and Inner Growth.

Related, but more reflective, will be a reading list: if possible, read Virgil's "Georgics", read "Hemingway's "The short happy life of Francis Macomber", The Poetic Edda, translated by Lee M. Hollander (in particular the Prophecy of the Seeress), Bernal Diaz del Castillo "True History of the Conquest of New Spain".

Follow your vision. Form secretive Rogue Cells everywhere. At the same time, be not afraid of solitude.

The Times We Live In – An Interview with Marc Isaacs in Resources on DFGDocs – The British Documentary Website

The Times We Live In – An Interview with Marc Isaacs in Resources on DFGDocs – The British Documentary Website

an interesting interview with a filmmaker whose work i really want to see. second run just came out with a dvd... hope to find one soon.



"You need a setting, you need a story and you need characters. If you have those three things you have everything you need to make a good film. But you need some formal binding device in which to present the story. It’s about our relationship to stories: we expect ‘once upon a time there was a town called Calais’, so once you’ve got that clear, that contains everything. Once you’ve established what the film is apparently about, you can go off on tangents, as long as they seem to be a variation on a theme, or a progression of a theme."