Be mindful of your thoughts - a cinematic poem
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2023
- Words have always fascinated me -- it's little surprise that I created this channel in order to share them. Yet, I have a strange relationship with words. Poems and screenplays, on my best days, help me to organise thoughts and feelings about the world and my place in it in -- often in a more romantic fashion than the reality itself. With time and the English language, I find ways to create beauty and meaning from moments that may have been confusing when they were simply moments alone.
Some days, however, words are not enough. They can feel recycled or unoriginal or overused or downright useless. Moreover, they can be confusing. When I tell you that 'It's raining', I don't even know what 'it' refers to. When I talk or write about 'love' or 'the heart', I'm unsure as to whether those are my thoughts or if they're somehow inherited. Do I really feel love in 'my heart'? I'm not sure about that.
What I am sure about is that learning new languages, meeting new people, expressing myself with and without words and generally being 'outside of myself' -- whatever that means -- is a good thing. And I encourage the same for you.
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'The Limits of Language' was shot on a Sony FX3 with G-Master zoom lenses in the early hours of New Year's Eve. Additional aerial footage was captured on the DJI Air 2S while on vacation in the beautiful and mesmerising country of Finland. The film was edited and graded on Final Cut Pro with a M1 MacBook, using the excellent Dehancer plugin.
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Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏼
oh Wow! loving the last shot.
Thanks for watching and commenting. What about the first shot?
Amazing poem, as always. It feels very intimate, as if I'm there, in front of you and you are saying all these words straight into my heart. I'm listening to you so carefully, holding my breath. I can almost smell the ginger and lemon you had put in your cup that morning. You are right, our thoughts and words are not our own, but it's what you can do with them matters. The way you spin an elegant cobweb of letters, channeling your thoughts through a digital machine is a true art.
The music is a great analogy to everything you've said - there are only ever 12 notes and it seems everything I improvise on the piano has already been written by someone… And yet, masterpieces will be created until the end of time.
Wow, what a nice comment. This is exactly what I want from this channel - to inspire people to write their own forms of poetry and to have fun with words. Thank you for this! (See you in the kitchen in a minute, ha).
Beautifully shot as always. I love thinking about the words you use in your poems. So thought-provoking. Also, the creaking sounds coming from (I assume) the ice were a really nice touch! 😊
Thanks, Ma. I’m glad you always enjoy these. The ice noise was created using a paper bag, then pitching it down. It’s not exactly accurate, but I was going for a certain tone and feeling.
Very profound. You have a way with words. I liked when you spoke in another language ... it sounded magical whatever it was.
I have a playlist of some very simple rhyming poems. I wonder if you would like to see some of them sometime? ruclips.net/p/PLy1yOsNCtsxPfgxux_hqq5evbekET079q
I really appreciate this comment. Thanks for the kind words and for the subscribe! I’m excited to check out your stuff too 🙏🏼