I am roughly as happy this week as I was unhappy last week, despite not having any more time to do much or even read the last few days of posts (much less comments).
I did the 48HOURS filmmaking challenge this weekend as director, co-producer, and co-writer. Our group, consisting of everybody from friends from my earliest days at film school to people I literally met on the night, drew the most dreaded genre: “dance or musical”.
Somehow, we made a dance film with a musical sequence, despite me having seen, perhaps, four dance films in my life. We also threw in time travel, a hip-hop musical sequence, references to 2001 and PLANET OF THE APES, and a silly amount of bright spandex, amongst other things. Slightly unexpectedly, it was wonderful. I mean, as a filmmaking experience, though truthfully I’m quite proud of the film as well. Actually, proud is the wrong word, as it was a true collaborative experience, and I am humbled by all the work old and new friends put in to making the film. This is not a film I would have ever come up with on my own, which is not an insult to it.
But I am brain dead, pretty much, and need to sleep so that I can finish my last two weeks on the music show and make the episode about South Africa even better than the ones about Brazil and Israel. So I leave you with this, a song by the incomparable Vusi Mahlasela:
Where can we see the movie?
I’m not yet sure when we’re allowed to post it. I can’t screen it before the screening at the competition heat, which is on Saturday. Whether I’m allowed to post it before the winners are announced, I’m not sure.