kodak pitch

pitching ad ideas tomorrow for the kodak competition - meeting all afternoon with pinballing ideas around 4 heads on the second floor of the national film school. we are pitching retro porn based idea for kodak but animation is in danger of falling apart for lack of colourist - will also pitch an 'antipersperant anonymous' for lynx - might work.

a level maths is draining my mind and energy levels.

Olswang

i am sat in a large board room, wooden varnished tables reflecting the grey sky of a london afternoon. the grey of the sky is matched by the domes and towers outside the widescreen window. lawyers from Olswangs come in, and in turn go through the minutiae of legal contracts - exclusivity - credit - contingents and so on and so on until they are just mumbling drone like clones of one another.

two crows are playing outside, swinging between our building and the next, prancing over the gargoyles heads in full awareness of their arrogance.

"the parties to the interparty agreement consent to residual payment, precedent on previous finance contracts drawn up, to be divided parri passou pro rata in relation to their equity stakes"

i sit and wonder if we are even speaking english as double dipping causes chuckles and net profits are doled out from imaginary recoupment schedules

in the middle i get phone calls - meet a composer at lunchtime - call a location at tea time - see if we can find a 16 year old who looks 14 - need one for My Sister Jodie!! Promo needs to be shot soon - october 27 - maybe - perhaps - will it?

projects in progress:

kid
yellow belly end
capoeira doc
my sister jodie promo
kodak ad

will i still be there? i enjoy the grey of the city

Analysis of Men and Masculinity in Iranian Cinema

20 Fingers

20 Fingers tells the story of the development of the relationship between Mania and Bijan. This film is shot in a dogma style on DV format and consists of 7 scenes, which are all single long takes with only two actors. The scenes chart the development of the relationship between Mania and Bijan, exploring different elements of the male/female relationships from their infancy.

The dialogue heavy script begins in a dark car, driving through the countryside, and starts with the couple of the kinds of things young couples talk about. As the scene progresses they become more intimate, until it becomes apparent that the man (Bijan) assaults Mania, in order to check her virginity, and as such breaks her hymen. She is upset as to how she will explain this to her parents, and he justifies it by saying that it was something that he needed to be certain about, being the highly conservative character that he is.

The next scene takes place in a cable car, and the couple have an argument, based on the previous evening, where Mania had danced with another man in at a party the previous evening. Here Bijan expresses jealousy and so demonstrates the start of the frays in their relationship.

The third scene is that of an argument, where the couple are riding on a bike, and have quite a heated argument, where Bijan disapproves of Mania’s desire to have an abortion, and this quickly becomes a very heated played out in the street.

The next scene is a discussion between the couple about infidelity, and the ability of a couple that Mania knows to deal with the infidelity of the woman in the relationship. By this point it is clear that Mania is unhappy and is pushing the boundaries ordinarily expected for a woman. Bijan in unable to deal with her notion that the woman may have been justified due to lack of attention from the man.

In the following scene, which takes place in a restaurant, the couple discuss gender, and Mania’s desire to have been a boy when she was younger. Thus the couple explore the possibility of the others gender.

And the final two scenes, show the deterioration of the relationship through squabbling and bickering in regards to other male family friends who Mania has been seeing. Eventually they arrive to a point where Mania reveals that she has been sleeping with a woman, and so marks the end of their relationship.