June Second
This is a short film (actually, it was shot on video, but calling it a video has such limited conotations for style, production, and intention) which I made for my Faulkner class. It a filmic study, reading, translation of the first few pages of the Quentin chapter ("June Second, 1910") of The Sound and the Fury. I hope it works well on its own, but I think it works best when the audience knows the text, especially that chapter, and especially those few pages. For that reason I wouldn't call it necessarily a dramatization or an adaptation, although it is both. It's not meant to speak for Faulkner, but with him.
I apologize for the quality of the video. I had to post it on YouTube, because esnips has limited their upload size. It's not terrible, but its quite muddy - the original is dark, but still clear in the details.
[ps: the video is kind of jumping around the page here on Safari for some reason. If you want to view it at youtube, here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o9xVz3vYC4
I apologize for the quality of the video. I had to post it on YouTube, because esnips has limited their upload size. It's not terrible, but its quite muddy - the original is dark, but still clear in the details.
[ps: the video is kind of jumping around the page here on Safari for some reason. If you want to view it at youtube, here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o9xVz3vYC4
posted by Sturgeon General at 12:56 PM
10 Comments:
sweet
does anyone know of a short film fest where this work might be accepted? im thinking of submitting it to the ivy film fest, but it might not be long/original enough. I'm thinking more of a literary film fest, something that's geared more towards pieces like this... maybe a literary festival with a media section?
ah well. I also assume if I submitted it to an official fest, I'd have to contact the publisher to figure out whether it would be copyright infringement. mm, the beautiful bureaucracy of the man. the thing is i hate to make stuff like this, you know, in kind of a professional mode (not saying quality just aim), and then just let it die the slow death of the blog post (and the death of the youtube post).
also just want to gripe/explain the reason I am posting this at 3:45 am... I just lost, by horrible computative accident, about 1/3 of a 16 page paper im writing, due tomorrow, for which I have already gotten a 3 day extension. I now must rewrite/re-revise all that I lost (about 5 hours of straight work). So I am panicking/not-caring/procrastinating.
Also of note, well don't really watch it, just the first few shots - a class project video on As I Lay Dying (made for Weinstein?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSKj_xHxBn0&mode=related&search=
And here's a copy of the 1950 Nobel Prize award ceremony:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVHXaRBs5FI&mode=related&search=
And, I just found the lost document, in a somehow non-existant, yet actual folder, which could only be seen after I had unplugged my external hard drive and then the data recovery software trial (the full version of which I was close to throwing down cold hard cash for) decided it would be a good idea to try and save its log file in exactly that neither hidden nor visible folder, and ask me before it did it.
this is after trying pathetically to reconstitute what i had lost for the past 9 hours.
sounds like a bitch of a finals time. are you done now?
the short's good. i thought that the way it was edited reflected faulkner's style. I know that's what you were going for. I'd like to see a version with more clarity and detail in the dark parts
nice work
scott nelson: the new cad/die.
ooo. sorry. finals hurt my brain?
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when you first posted this, i hadn't yet read the book, and now I'm somewhere in the middle of the Quentin chapter. without having read it, knowing that it was based on/adapted from/inspired by the book, I felt like I was really missing something the first time I watched it. enough so, in fact, that I decided it was time to actually read the book. now, I can't quite decide whether I liked it more or less before knowing the background... but one way or the other, I do think it's beautifully crafted. I think you're right, it does stand on its own, but it works much better when it stands with Faulkner's work. I'd also agree that the editing works well to reflect Faulkner's style, as does the imagery itself. I'm sure my take on it will continue to change as I move forward in the book, so I thank you for such an intriguing reading companion. wish i did know of an appropriate film fest... i'd be interested to know if anyone's found one..
when you first posted this, i hadn't yet read the book, and now I'm somewhere in the middle of the Quentin chapter. without having read it, knowing that it was based on/adapted from/inspired by the book, I felt like I was really missing something the first time I watched it. enough so, in fact, that I decided it was time to actually read the book. now, I can't quite decide whether I liked it more or less before knowing the background... but one way or the other, I do think it's beautifully crafted. I think you're right, it does stand on its own, but it works much better when it stands with Faulkner's work. I'd also agree that the editing works well to reflect Faulkner's style, as does the imagery itself. I'm sure my take on it will continue to change as I move forward in the book, so I thank you for such an intriguing reading companion. wish i did know of an appropriate film fest... i'd be interested to know if anyone's found one..
sorry that posted itself twice. my computer's cranky.
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