From: David Harding (davidharding@optusnet.com.au)
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 06:55:37 GMT
David Harding said:
Now that all that hard work has almost been completed what do you plan to
do with yourself now? I'm curious because at the moment I'm trying to work
out how and where best I can make the MoQ more recognised for what it is.
Anthony said:
Unless, you know a TV documentary maker, David, that’s about all the ideas
I have at the moment. Hope the above is some help, anyway.
David's reply:
A documentary certainly is an intersesting idea as there have been some very
successful documentaries which made it to the big screen recently such as,
Spellbound (about the national spelling B championships in the US), Bowling
for Columbine and there is a new one out soon with Ex US Secretary of
Defense, Robert S. McNamara and his views on Americas military stance in
world. Heres a link to its trailer - http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/
thefogofwar.html
This trailer really makes me wonder about what could be possible with an MOQ
doco but unfortunately I don't know any Producers. So I'm just thinking at
the moment about the information I've read from this website - http://
www.documentaries.org/ - where there's links to various grants that are given
(which I didn't even know existed) to aspiring documentary makers.
In Lila Pirsig complained about how ZMM was going to be all 'romanticized' as
a movie but with a documentary and it's strict 'narrative' structure, I can
hardly see that happening. Moreover, he complaned of how movies were
'cultural reinforcement' rather than a 'knock on the head' but with present
times as uncertain as they are, and documentaries drastically more
intellectual than a run of the mill Hollywood movie, there's more of a chance
now, than even 10 years ago, for something like the MOQ to gain attention.
Anyway, thanks for the ideas, while I'm looking into this Documentary stuff,
as per suggestion, I'm creating a paper for moq.org!
Regards,
David Harding
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