This quote from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 10 lessons for Learning to Make Films D’auteur kept me company and left me pondering during much of my time at Arteles:
“Filmmaker! An anthology of fragments, you too are a fragment. Your film, unfinished, just a part, a continuation. There is no finishing. Kill the word Ending. You'll start making a movie the day you realize you are just continuing what you already started. Never try to achieve prestige. Disregard the bombastic. Don't decorate. Don't try to anticipate what the image will convey. Don't look for them. Receive the images. Hunting is forbidden, fishing is allowed.”
In gratitude and wonderment,
Kari Leigh “Bunny” Ames
[Me with the floral archway I made on the Arteles grounds, photo by Tomas Franco]