Beyond Filmmaking
Many years ago I had a brown leather notebook in which I would write my ideas inside. Not film ideas, existential ideas, ideas and theories about the connection of body and mind and if ‘soul’ really exists or how they are connected to one another. Ideas about the Big Bang, space-time, dimensions, hearing colours and seeing sounds. Little I knew that many of them were in fact other theories by philosophers and scientists like René Descartes. Although the notebook was full of ideas and deep thoughts presented in many forms such as drawings, it got very little attention and even achieved some level of humiliation from family and friends. They would laugh at me for thinking about things which seemed obvious and common sense to some people such as the thought of “who is ‘I’”. I wrote pages about the word ‘I’ and I looked at it from as many different perspectives as I could. However, after much humiliation and being told that school and good grades are more important than these things I st
