On the 20th (of last month...yikes this is late), we heard from Sasha Waters Freyer, who makes short films and documentaries. After getting a BFA in photography and an MFA in documentaries in film, she joined the faculty of the University of Iowa to teach filmmaking. She has collaborated with other filmmakers for her documentaries, but her short films are done more personally. While she is a slow filmmaker and editor (by her own measurements), she allows herself to be very experimental with her shorter films.
Even though I have never had a desire to go into filmmaking, I thought her talk was fairly interesting. I was especially interested in the financial aspect - if she is as slow a filmmaker and editor as she says she is, and the stipends she gets are wildly varied, how does she make any money from making films? Or, more to the point, how would one support oneself by making films this way? I suppose that point really isn't what the lecture was about, but the question still exists in my mind. I did like that she told us the use of majoring in art, as I had never really considered the skills you learn from being an art major - greater independence and working both solo and with other people (that last one especially is one I could use more skill with myself). Again, I have no plans to major in art, but this information is still useful to know. In my own work, while I don't plan to incorporate film into my paintings anytime soon, I ought to allow myself more room to experiment the way she does.
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