Intro
http://vimeo.com/16381696
Gay Rights
http://vimeo.com/16417967
I'd love your comments and thoughts,
Louisa
Monday, November 1, 2010
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Haas Presentation
This Friday I will be presenting my progress report to the other scholars, Leah and my mentor Katherine Sherwood. I will stand in front of my cohort for twenty minutes and attempt to compress five months of research into ten slides and a dozen concise points.
I started having nightmares last week. At least fear is a good motivating force, I stuck my head down and have been pretty much hibernating since. Regardless of the fact that it is Halloween, the weekend has been spent editing an introduction to my film and a few excerpts. It's slightly odd and disorienting that forty hours of work breaks down to less than five minutes of video, still, each time I watch the time line I feel giddy and so happy to see my vision coming alive.
As the minutes fade to hours and I focus on a 17 inch monitor and not the Giants game I have to remind myself to recite my fathers favorite mantra; "There can be no art without discipline, and there can be no discipline without sacrifice".
On that note I'm back to the grind, Go Giants and Happy Halloween.
I started having nightmares last week. At least fear is a good motivating force, I stuck my head down and have been pretty much hibernating since. Regardless of the fact that it is Halloween, the weekend has been spent editing an introduction to my film and a few excerpts. It's slightly odd and disorienting that forty hours of work breaks down to less than five minutes of video, still, each time I watch the time line I feel giddy and so happy to see my vision coming alive.
As the minutes fade to hours and I focus on a 17 inch monitor and not the Giants game I have to remind myself to recite my fathers favorite mantra; "There can be no art without discipline, and there can be no discipline without sacrifice".
On that note I'm back to the grind, Go Giants and Happy Halloween.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
In My Editing Cave
The last week has been spent compressing all of my footage from Ireland. What would normally be a tedious, repetitive and timely endeavor was instead infused with a lot of laughter and reminiscing. Thanks go entirely to Raul Varela, my DP for transforming the process by sharing the burden of compressing and file renaming and by lightening the load by making me laugh.
Truly I am so happy with the beautiful imagery and scenes we captured and again I was touched by the raw beauty of these women's stories. A grand 28 of them! My real duty will be to do the stories and history justice. Being a young filmmaker, in both experience and less so in age, that will be where I will need to remind myself at every turn to ask for guidance and to stay open to letting grace into the process. I feel fortunate that the lessons I've learned with painting and writing can be applied to editing. These being to
1. Trust the process
2. To have faith in the vision of what I am creating
3. To do a little every day
4. Be easy on myself and not too critical of the work
Lastly I think it's really important to enjoy the process to the best of ones ability, and to remind oneself of the original intention.
To keep the process of blogging alive and vibrant for me and also for anyone who might read this, I will start sharing my thoughts and images on the topic or section of the documentary that I am currently editing.
These posts will come in weekly and will feature links to other sites that talk about the subject I'm exploring.
Let me know your thoughts!
Truly I am so happy with the beautiful imagery and scenes we captured and again I was touched by the raw beauty of these women's stories. A grand 28 of them! My real duty will be to do the stories and history justice. Being a young filmmaker, in both experience and less so in age, that will be where I will need to remind myself at every turn to ask for guidance and to stay open to letting grace into the process. I feel fortunate that the lessons I've learned with painting and writing can be applied to editing. These being to
1. Trust the process
2. To have faith in the vision of what I am creating
3. To do a little every day
4. Be easy on myself and not too critical of the work
Lastly I think it's really important to enjoy the process to the best of ones ability, and to remind oneself of the original intention.
To keep the process of blogging alive and vibrant for me and also for anyone who might read this, I will start sharing my thoughts and images on the topic or section of the documentary that I am currently editing.
These posts will come in weekly and will feature links to other sites that talk about the subject I'm exploring.
Let me know your thoughts!
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Mighty Women
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| Katherine O' Donnell Director Women Studies department UCD |
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| Evelyn Morris Mother of six and nurse for disabled adults in Ireland |
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| Annajoy O'Gorman Masters Student, Gender and Women Studies Trinity College Dublin |
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| Hard at work interviewing Annajoy on a beautiful day in Galway |
Monday, August 23, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Fundraiser - A lovely night
We held a fundraiser for our short film Education of Saints..
My producer Lyniel Dao and Creative producer Ria Murphy helped me to organize a brilliant fundraiser for our short film that will be screening at the IFFI in Sept. It was a lovely night and so great to see friends and meet new contacts. We were fortunate to have William Rogue playing acoustic guitar with Phil McConn accompanying.
Since film is such a collaborative process I have been given the go ahead to have a cinematographer come along to help me film. Raul Varela, www.raulvarela.com is a very talented filmmaker in his own right who has just returned from Mexico where he was filming a documentary about the Zapatista movement. Lyniel and Ria will also be coming and I feel very grateful to have their help and support. I feel sure their expertise will help to make the documentary a much stronger product. I will also feel liberated form the technical side and able to focus on the subjects and my research.
I leave for Ireland tomorrow and I am thrilled to begin networking and planning there. I will be in Galway first and will line up all my interviews and make initial contact with each of my interviewees. I will then travel to Dublin to film the March for Equality on August 22nd. The remainder of our time will be spent in Cork and Galway.
I will be posting with much more frequency once I arrive in Ireland.. feel free to leave comments as I would love to engage about the subjects I will be covering.
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