Finally I did it… my first ever… a truly one man band made short movie. My first experience of a new medium called motion pictures. A reflection on a story telling process, mixing motion, sound and time. Especially time. So different from the world of design where l have departed from.<\/p>\n
After a fiasco with my first attempt to make a long feature motion, l gave up and decided to go back to basics, to research and see what happens after. <\/p>\n
Untold, Night Documentary is my first honest attempt in film making and story telling.<\/p>\n
It is a short motion story that happened by itself in front of my eyes with no script in hand, no preconceived ideas of any sort. Just eyes wide opened, and camera rolling. <\/p>\n
Therefore, a documotion would better describe the nature of the film nature and of its narrative. <\/p>\n
Short film is reflecting a reality I live in now in a tiny street called Soi Se Yay or Tiger Lane here in my second home in Bangkok. It is a specific area in Bangkok, with it’s low level economic life, immigrants from Laos, Mynmar and elsewhere, but it offers a rich social life and interactions. <\/p>\n
Thai street, is a Soi where I can again sense real people, despite their poverty, lack of education. The place where l can interact with them despite being a foreigner. We share a smell of being foreigners which brings us together.<\/p>\n
Living life in this socially mixed area is a rewarding life. Sharing small joys with people l don’t know at all for good and bad is something I begin to value much more now than all the social life l used to have of so called upper class before. It is one kind of life that l am happily leaving behind me. The life l used to live as a kid was lost once l left my small Lane in Vrtojba, Slovenia. Soi Se Yay seems almost as a reincarnation of all that l was afraid I lost for ever back home in my first home. <\/p>\n
That’s how l met Khun Wan, on old crippled lady. Much younger than me she appeared from eternity. Coincidence that occured has not been. Now l know. While filming her it reminded me of my life as a kid, a pleasant reminder of people l cared of. It reflected the bonds we all share somehow, invisibly in time where space does not matter at all. <\/p>\n
That’s how l met Khun Wan, on old crippled lady. I did not know her name at that time at all.<\/p>\n
I came about her… as she was begging. I keept seeing her, began capturing her in front of 711 shop, while she was sitting there, by the pavement, begging for her small pocket money. <\/p>\n
What’s trucked me was the dignity she radiated. Half drunk, half I’ll, yet a person of respect. What caught further my attention were the passing by people, donors giving her small money without looking at her as a disguise. Quite opposite. There was something humble in their act of giving her money, food, drinks…<\/p>\n
Yes, she appeared a desperate creature, yet she managed to preserve her human dignity despite of the act of begging and of even being drunk and dirty smelling, tramp like looking creature.<\/p>\n
I got my first valuable lesson on Buddhism, values that you can see only if let the silence speak to you. I learned about the unwritten law of compassion, that runs invisible from up to down to the bottom of Thai social scale. <\/p>\n
Years latter l realized l had learned that what l did was not just an exercise on filming but l witnessed a story of humbness, Thai way. <\/p>\n
What more can one ask for the first filming experience? I don’t know if l will ever filmed a long feature movie. All l know is that l am happy with what l learned with this tiny, short one.<\/p>\n
Bojan Maraz, updated Bangkok, 12 May, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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