a day out and in
Another day another night in Paris. Yesterday i worked in the morning (laptops are a wonderful thing!) and then left to meet Jo at the Louvre. Conversation took the place of art and we wandered around the Tuileries and the streets around the Louvre. These days i am thinking a lot about the future of FOF. The way we are plodding ahead without funding and how it effects the program and our lives.
Looking at the way the French do things, remembering how it was to live here, i wonder at how far away from that philiosopy i have come. In order to get things moving i have plunged ahead. We have achieved so much in the last few years. But not without consequences. Being understaffed and underpaid will not be fine forever. And recently it has had direct consequences for our friends and sponsors.
If this were France, we would have spent these two years just developing the program and looking for funding. It is almost as if i cannot stop shooting, running program, doing doing doing.... But i have to rethink. I have to take a moment to pull back and hopefully it will be to better jump ahead.
Well, the festival is ahead- i want to talk about the program with the short film buyers and producers that will be there. I want to make the first contacts for a bi-lateral program with French schools.
There is something i feel here, a sence of invention, of forward movement. The French have a sense of style in their visuals, there is the cult of the 'auteur' here. I feel a synergy in Asia and Europe that doesn't seem as potent as one that combines North America with Asia....
This break away from Hong Kong has already given me some insite. Hopefully the right insite!
