samsara

SAMSARA
cycle of reincarnation or rebirth
The karmic balance at the time of death is inherited via the state at which a person is reborn. Through an undetermined amount of lives one can spiral upwards to become one of the gods. As a deity, one exercises divine powers until the good merit is exhausted. If one lives in evil ways, one is reborn as an animal.[
Saṃsāra is described as mundane existence, full of suffering and misery and hence is considered undesirable and worth renunciation. The Saṃsāra is without any beginning and the soul finds itself in bondage with its karma since the beginingless time. Moksa is the only liberation from saṃsāra.


Mother/giver of life…baking the bread…birth

Death – coffin of man, death is father sort of, spirit of destruction

Rebirth…girls turn to dust/flour…mother makes more bread → life


Turning of the bowl…the cycle …like folding of the bread

Sound of like a water wheel throughout the piece

What my images say:

Boy: tortured then peaceful…death…managing his sins
Girl: objectification of women…girl w/ pail on her head…kneeling down, grasping the floor
Mother: mother goddess giver of life, but also fate
Mother and father are dual forces (life and destruction)

title

my piece is officially called SAMSARA. ^_^

moving into editing

so on schedule. muahahaha.

i finished all my shooting on saturday. brought in outside actors for the last half.

btw, working w/ animals is really hard. i dunno if my dog shot is gonna work...sigh.

i watched 2 akira kurosawa movies: seven samurai and RAN. wow, i think he might be my favorite now. i'm gonna watch more movies by him!

this week i begin editing. my goal is to put together a rough version of "barnyard" and then make "blackbird" ready for the henry.

i've captured almost all my video already, i just have about an 1hr 30min left.

still on schedule plus movies!

yo.

i'm so organized. i love it! i just met my other actor yesterday. he's really cool and knows a lot about film. he even wants to stick around for the rest of my shoot to help out. i'm meeting my last actress tomorrow. craigslist kind of rocks. i got about 30 replies so far. he he he. i will wrap shooting this weekend and then begin editing both blackbird and this new film which i shall tentatively call barnyard.

i've also been watching movies. so far i've viewed black orpheus, citizen kane, seven samurai, and i'm going to watch another kurosawa film over the weekend or friday. myaaaaa. good stuff. i tried to rent brand on the brain but apparently it's not out yet. sigh...

future film idea

capgras disorder

on schedule

i killed myself this weekend, but at least i'm on schedule. julia, if u read this, know that u're a godsend! i couldn't have done it without u!

as planned, completed half of my filming...i completed my daughter and son scenes. i will capture all this this week and begin editing (probably mostly chopping out bad footage and color correcting). need to find more actors b/c my other actors fell through. hopefully this is possible.

fremont is great and totally not as scary as it was made out to be. i had to mop the floor like 4 times though and scamper up scaffolds s i'm really sore.

now i need sleep.
but i can never sleep.


@_@

The archetype → jung’s archetypes (the mother….yada)
In mythology what are the archetypes?

Rolling a rock constantly up a hill, knowing it’s going to come down again

Path to the end of suffering → can take many lifetimes to reach the end, till the cycle of rebirths (like my film, a cycle of rebirth)

The wheel of life, or "samsara", is an ancient symbol that has the same meaning in Buddhism and Hinduism. It is symbolises the cycle of birth, life, and death. When one revolution of the wheel is completed, life begins again with rebirth.


Need to find an 8 spoke wheel

Open with the turning of the wheel, end with the rest of the wheel…keep getting farther and farther away from it, things get blurry (tight with the camera then go out and up)

Archetypal Mother: Intimately known and yet strange like Nature, lovingly tender and yet cruel like fate, joyous and untiring giver of life--mater dolorosa and mute implacable portal that closes upon the dead.

Cornucopia, sheaves of wheat, autumn harvest, torch, bread, honey, and acorns –BREAD, SHEAVES OF WHEAT (symbols of the goddess mother)

Father is like Saturn…archetypal father → omnipotence, devouring his children