I'd Give the World

Segment from the 1993 half-hour film "Johanna", written and directed, with original music by Sean Guinan. With Sean Guinan and Bonnie Tocwish.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Sean
• Guinan
• Bonnie
• Tocwish
• Johanna
• Give
• World

[mrengulfeddirector]

I'd love it just to get the smallest peak into the creative process of a work like this. I know, a magician never reveals his secrets, but just, wow. And I especially love the allowance of modern objects, like some of the clothing and the car seen briefly near the end. It makes your work undoubtedly timeless and eerie - like it was of another world!

[possiblyblank]

It's a lovely thing about super-8 film, that no matter WHEN it's shot, it always looks like it was shot in the distant past; somewhere between the 1900s and the 1940s. It turns every event, every action into a silver memory. I've often said that if I ever get married, video cameras will be barred....if anyone wants to make a document of the proceeding, they'll have to get their hands on a super-8 camera!

[mrengulfeddirector]

@possiblyblank So what's your method of transferring Super 8 films onto the computer?

[possiblyblank]

Well, I had to transfer it to video, first, then edit it. I did that at some video transfer place. I should mention, too, that "Johanna" was one of the only times I ever shot on film...all my other clips here were shot on video...including the opening sequence from Teplitz...I used AfterEffects and other simpler tricks to get an old film look, to one degree or another.

[jatoodee]

I just love this! Good job! Like your work.

Tina

[possiblyblank]

Oh thank you so much, Tina! It's nice to hear from you again.

[skaistagalda]

what lyrics have ever been written for such a song; who writes about don't speak of Gods to me? We are all supposed to follow the conventions of pop music and no pop song ever says Don't talk of Gods to me, and if you do, it had best be a "religious" song; it must be that this guy, Guinan has invented or is loyal to his own Mythology; imagine that. Is that possible, is that allowed in this MODERN world? I wonder.