The art of loom encompasses many pathways of expressions. Or would it be that there is a pathway of expression for every art of loom? Anyway, not the time for this yet. Tranquil is the tide for us and just for us. Let’s be grateful and begin.
For now, let's stick to the basis:
We need to have something clear first. In order to weave our Film Opening, a light followed must be. Let's consider the genre of the project as our lighthouse. It will serve as a guide for us to follow, for us to aim at. That way our own light of progress, of process will blend subtly and intelligently with what is grounded, connected.
Now we need to wander ... Is an established genre what we want for our masterpiece? Let's find out!
From the surface and as a quick reference to the former rhetoric of this post, let's always keep in heart and mind the loom we're weaving... Which... by the way will be soon for us to imagine, project, and eventually realize. In other words... When the idea comes.. when we see the light... it will be as an invitation to produce it rightfully-with the right from our heart- and mindfully.
Patience. To trust this idea worths it. For we need to keep our water moving, flowing. We're swimming that's for sure and for sure that's all we know... For now that's enough—enough to lift our head and look for our lighthouse. Patience. It is a trust of great worth to practice it.
Let’s immerse ourselves into an article titled “Dimensions of Conventionality and Innovation in Film: The Cultural Classification of Blockbusters, Award Winners, and Critics' Favourites” written by Annemarie Kersten and Marc Verboord.
Great part of this study analyses the gradual process that the birth of innovations and the permanence of conventionalities is in terms of the differences that exists between them withholding however a mutual relationship up to a certain point in the industry of film. Such relationship has fallen, from my understanding, into what the conventionalities or innovations —or genre, which is what we’re trying to define for our Film Opening— opt to follow to subsequently define the logic of the piece, hence what in essence is the keynote for its production.
The study further considers that society has gotten to a point where sadly such logic is what is criticized when evaluating a film and therefore what serves as the basis for its classification. The document finds substantial support in Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, a book written by Pierre Bourdieu in 1979, which is mainly a sociological and cultural study of the state of France.
Well.. Well…
A great quote from the article elaborately descries what has become our reason to cry. A sea of tears indeed. How constraint I feel in this moment. Not only because of what is being presented in the article, but with the fact that the paradigm itself still lays within a territory that exacerbates the squared nature of social limitations hence conventionalities, in an extenuated fashion however:
“Genre gives boundaries to what the audience can expect a film to entail.”
It is by no means a reason for drowning. We shall learn to swim in these waters. Just like we began this post… let’s be grateful. Let’s be grateful that the authors of this article concluded that “due to increasing complexity of the film field, the legitimizing power of institutional agents has leveled, which makes it increasingly difficult for single individuals and organizations to put a mark on classification processes.” Let’s be grateful that individuals like Gerardo Patriotta y Paul M. Hirsch recognize that complexity, that what makes us sob in terrestrial waters. For they have provided a lightbulb with which we can use to guide ourselves in this process to create our Film Opening with their case study titled “Mainstreaming Innovation in Art Worlds: Cooperative links, conventions and amphibious artists”.
We’ll know more of this in the next post! Good night :)
Kersten, A. and Verboord, M. (2013) ‘Dimensions of Conventionality and Innovation in Film: The Cultural Classification of Blockbusters, Award Winners, and Critics' Favourites’, Cultural Sociology published online in 2013. Retrieved from https://www.academia.edu/4885057/Dimensions_of_Conventionality_and_Innovation_in_Film_The_Cultural_Classification_of_Blockbusters_Award_Winners_and_Critics_Favorites
Bourdieu, P. (1979) ‘Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste’, Social Sciences, Sociology. Retrieved from http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674212770
