Beginning

I just got laid off from a cushy corporate startup production job. I loved the people, I loved the work. I was directing, I was leading, but I didn't have much headspace for my own projects. For what I consider my real vocation - narrative film making - feature filmmaking.

 I want to explore what has been called Personal Work. I've made a living as a film maker and director and have ridden that slipstream of pleasing the client and performing according to expectations. Carrying out the client's vision, the company's vision. What would happen if I worked to carry out my own? To explore and ask myself, what is it I want to shoot? What is it I want to see? Let's see it. This blog and this exploration is about feeling into my own instincts and my own passions to find out where my vocation is really leading me. It's also an opportunity for me to document my work, to put it all in one place, so that I can look back on it and start to see the shape. And have a destination for it. So it's not just in my head. I'll have current work, future projects being drafted here, collaborations. Connections to my collaborators, I'll probably put up old work too. Just to see whether it all stands up. You may be seeing some things that I haven't shown the world in twenty years.

 I'm excited about this. I need a place to pour this work and energy into. It's a real chance for me to consider myself, to look at where I've been and where I'm going, and have a record and a rough/loose drafting space to record my work.

Hopefully it will also be interesting to others who are on a similar path, looking for something like this in their own life. You tell me? Here we go.