When I initially started this blog almost six years go (!), my core intent was to use it as a running extension of the pedagogical insights that were then very active to me as a full time undergraduate in film. A chapter in my life with less immediate duties and dreamed ambitions still faraway from any practical reality. It was, and still is the case, that film critique and filmmaking respond to each other as an intertwined dialog for me personally. And this blog, however nascent, has largely stayed the course on that maiden voyage I set upon as an active forum for the exploration and documentation of the dynamic.
What I couldn't foresee upon completion of my degree was the exigent motivation I'd suddenly form to rapidly hit the ground running on the filmmaking portion (which understandably remains my truest passion), leaving the criticism part gradually malnourished over the years, reducing the promise of this blog to nothing more than a holiday enterprise for freely musing about year end favorites and the occasional filmmaker dialog for chronicling the medium's great minds & luminaries. Though I view those as still being innate features of my project, the eventizing of my exercise in thought have increasingly left a bitter taste in my mouth as what at first were the efforts I could find the time to do given my accelerating busyness became regular programming for the next few years to come. With the slippage of my devotion to this kind of writing, came with a creeping sense of intellectual laziness & calcification I was beginning to feel set in.
It's time I put an end to that. Although my filmmaking life is only due for further intensity from here on out, I am fully committed and reenergized after a few years of dormancy to set this blog back to its original pace. To write about the cinema both old and contemporary, to muse about whatever permutations emerge in my head about whatever topics spring to mind and to express what I simply must that even the cinema cannot merely render alone.
The water sits still no more. I've thrown a stone into the pond.
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