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A Decade of Not Trying a program of work by Matt Brown
To commemorate / conclude / exorcise the last ten years of my filmmaking non-life, I screened a series of collected non-works from the last ten years in the back room of The Ossington on Thursday, May 13 2010. Terrific space for this sort of thing - a bit off the beaten track, and so were the movies I showed; and the conditions were cozy, and so was the company.
I also screened The VCR Decalogue, the first time all ten films have been shown in their entirety, and the results were faintly incredible. What an accidental bit of amazing we all put together there.
I was sitting in the Ossington a couple of months at one of the HerzogFests when I came up with hosting a screening/wake and calling it A Decade of Not Trying; I had just quit my job, and was thinking a lot about all the things that brought me to the point where I wasn’t really making movies any more, and all the things that were bringing me back out.
I’ve written about some of those things in the program for A Decade of Not Trying, and Daniel concocted a sort of stupendous essay as well, all of which you can peruse via the wonders of PDF.
I’ve been saying that this year has the golden light around it, and it seems so - not just for me. While visiting North Toronto C.I. for the final Maytime Melodies in the old building, Jody talked about needing to come to a point in your life where you knew what it was worth to you, and I’ve talked at length about what happens when you start communicating a vision, to yourself and others.
Most important is just realizing that it’s all the same show.
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