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I’m tired today. It’s our third day off and away from the SAFC site and I wonder who else is tired on the lab. Tiredness has its source in many springs and sleep is only one response. Fatigue is a cousin of tired and is a consequence of working hard. We are joined in this, I feel, participants, tutors and organizers. I hope so, I hope others are tired too or at least fatigued.
However, I sense some of the hard work is happening in space still. It’s not at home. Where is home, Labbers? Where do your films live? Where do you live? Why float in space or in a zone called cinema or the past or in an idea that lives in the country of ideas? Your story is looking for a place, a simple place, to put it’s head down and sleep.
I am a visitor to your country, your city, your gardens, you homes, your bedrooms, your hospitals, cemeteries and hotels and I want to know what you feel about being in these places, living here. What makes you furious, nauseous, worried and passionate? What makes you sad, what do you want to shout about? Who do you wish to avenge and why? What do you mourn and how does your story inhabit this feeling? What do you regret that you wish to correct? What is missing? If this is gnomic, I make no apologies but hope instead it makes a trigger which fires off something for you. And makes you interrogate your stories in the same way.
For those still in search of this heart-beat, it is an honourable space to be in. Don’t be fooled by what you hope it is because unless you really have your head down on the real chest of your story listening to what it’s truly telling you, it will all cave in and feel false. Because the excitement which flows off a story which is flowing, particularly after working hard to find it, is like no other sensation and will beat fatigue and tiredness hands down.
Enough. I look forward to hearing what you’ve discovered in the break. And of course, I look forward to seeing you all again. Onwards!
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