Andrej Tarkovsky (?, I am pretty certain it is him) writes in one of his books: “You have to be a servant of the work of art not a master of it”.
And his long time editor Michal Leszczylowski says somewhere (I do not remember where) “in bad movies decisions how to cut are made by either director or editor. in good movies these decisions are made by the material.” (quoting from memory)
In short, humbleness.
Perhaps this dynamic can also work in a simple and modest documentary which I am currently producing.
I took upon myself to tell the story of a certain philosopher who is no longer around.
The project is tentatively called "The Department of Historical Necessity".
I just returned from another material collecting trip and discovered there that the hero of my story takes over in a very literal way: he makes me set up shots according to his (specific) physical ways of interacting with the world. I just looked at these shots and they look eerily real.
Where will it lead me if I allow it to take over?
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