Train to cardiff.
Shot on a disposable camera from boots.
Recently I have been listening to Filler podcast by the talented Harry Hitchens and Matt shore (@fillerpodcast on twitter). They talk to many very popular figures from within the youtube community as well as professionals in the industry, usually based in a coffee shop in london. The episodes are an hour long and consist of the featured person talking about themselves, what inspires them and how they got where they are. As much as I like listening to these people I have a subtle yet immediate rejection of the subjects and the somewhat superficial way in which the people on the podcast talk about what they do. I want to hear more talk about the work and what it means to them, I want to hear more about their deeper connection to photography or film making, I guess I'm saying filler isn't my perfect podcast and despite it's many good aspects it seems more focused on the artistic industry without focusing on the art. It is about the people and the people aren't what interests me. Much the same can be said about some of the most influential film directors in history, I'm not interested in them, I'm interested in what they make. Its like asking Orson Welles how he met Anthony Perkins rather than what the message behind the Trial actually was.
I guess I'm looking for the art and not the artist, it sort of gets my cynically riled up that these people who are in the public eye aren't the visionaries that I want them to be. It's showing me a gap in the market and I'm telling myself 'fill it'. I have the dreams of making a film interest podcast where theories and exposition are readily discussed, much like french new wave directors I believe that the director should be in control of every single aspect of the film. Most prolifically for french new wave was the mies en scene of a production but auteur directors like Wes Anderson and Richard Ayoade have taken it to a whole new level when they are intrinsically invested in every little part of the film. These are the directors I look towards when I look at film, they make film into an art form, as soon as a film is a piece of art I am stimulated by it ten fold.
My dream podcast wouldn't be with someone likeFrancine Stock or Mark Kermode or someone who anyone knows, it would be a structured talk with someone who just bloody loves the gears that turn behind the screen, in the directors head, in our own heads. A podcast about film for filmmakers, for artists, for theorists and for anyone who is interested in digging up the meanings behind art.