short film-poem: "An Arresting Feeling"

short film-poem: "An Arresting Feeling"

This short short is based on my poem "An Arresting Feeling"; it is the very basic pilot of the full version which is more script- driven. this version is filmed entirely on a mobile cam; the footages went through lots of colour correcting (stroke distorting) and motion effects in Final Cut Pro.

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my voice was also recorded using the mobile; I later used some sound altering effects, added music loops and sound fxs from the copyrights free Apple Loops and mixed-down the whole thing in Soundtrack....
(main Sound effects and tracks used:
Electronic club dance beat and Orchestral string section 75)

I had helping hands from fellow filmmakers Mahmoud Mushatat and Ed Kerr who filmed the shots I appear in; I could have done this with an actor other than myself if it wasn't for the "no-budget budget" I managed to raise (mainly a London Bus-Pass)...
It was fun...
Here is the written poem:

"An Arresting feeling"

I might be waiting for the bus

Heading towards camden town,
being and looking rather quiet
yet anxious and edgy,
calm and furious,
yet sad
and saintly-crazed and dubious
all at once, as I usually be
when I dream of movies
I could've featured in...
(Yes I'm an actor! I'm a mask contractor
My whole take in life
is rather queer)

I might be waiting for the bus,
The world is soaked in rains and tears and melodramas
The stage is set, and I for one
Is seen by no on-lookers
Observed by no observers
But the cool and cold, but the red and the bold
But the sick and the sickening
Eye of the method actor

(I don't usually feel offended by my "insignificant-ness"
by not being seen for reason of colour, not mist or fog
And I don't really get engaged in self/observing acts of living
unless provoked )

I might be waiting for the bus,
as I get immersed in this immediate feeling
this "arresting feeling",
"stop and search your soul" kind of feeling...
And it's not an actor, playing me
It's not a character -- enacted me

I' am singled out!

I' am seen by

- Not my own collective single-being
Of an actor -

But by the fully-enforcing gaze
of the Yard's contractor

29th Dec 2007 (more)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• experimental
• filmmaker
• reel
• short
• film
• African
• Sudanese
• London
• Black
• B2
• documentary

[MetjePostma]

It's great! a hip-hop Video-poem. Exciting application of techniques. Thank you!

[Hagbayon]

love the accent, the 'english' as apart from English.

[GregoryKimberleyMoss]

brilliant poem and film

[Kosta5g]

i enjoyed that! well read!

[theasil1]

this is brilliant

[WhatYouGots]

pretty good :)

you could add your video to one of those video contests, like yobi film

[ssaeed]

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