It’s time for another
Symposium and this month’s theme is Bus. I have a few memorable bus stories. . .the time Josh said riding the bus with me in Seattle was like riding the bus with a Sesame Street character, the time a Greek kid struck up a conversation with me until we got the whole bus laughing and thus proved Regis wrong and proved me right that it is okay to talk on public transit, and the time Elisabeth saw my connection with a man on a bus in Seattle and immediately thought I was going to invite this stranger back to her place for Thanksgiving.But those stories are for different times. Today, I give you images instead of words and movement instead of speech. Megan and I rode the bus in our home city recently. . .something that gave us both a bit of anxiety and a lot of excitement because we are Car City that has been slowly transitioning to a Car City with Options and so neither of us had taken the bus in Omaha in over a decade. We had a ball, and this is my weird film that resulted from it. . . .it’s obvious that as a teen I got into non-narrative cinema. Still, I think if you look and listen with an attentive eye and ear, you’ll be able to stitch together a moving narrative in the mere 2 minutes of footage.
I worked with your mother many years ago, saw that you liked writing, was very impressed, started reading and couldn’t stop. Please don’t grade me on my writing and grammar, Keep on writing, you are very good….
I enjoyed that! I was really heartened to learn that you've been into non-narrative or perhaps personal poetic cinema since you were a teen. I dig that about you and also very much enjoy that kind of artistic filmic exploration too -- and indeed love all kinds of Film. Keep up your experimental work. I look forward to experiencing your next one! E https://archive.org/details/Filmstudie1925