A "Jane Brain" my-brain-at-the-moment- SYNOPSIS:
Roberto Rossellini is one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. Jane Public (this writer) is the same exact thing (yet still undiscovered by Hollywood standards). Rossellini made a trilogy of films during and after World War II— Rome Open City, Paisan, and Germany Year Zero—that left his first transformative mark on cinema. With their stripped-down aesthetic, largely nonprofessional casts, and unorthodox approaches to storytelling, these intensely emotional works were international sensations and came to define the neo-realist movement (MY BIGGEST INFLUENCE AS AN ARTIST). Shot in battle-ravaged Italy and Germany (hey, why didn't he just shoot in the Bronx, SAME THING??!), these three films are some of our most lasting, humane documents of devastated postwar Europe, containing universal images of both tragedy and hope.
So what does that have to do with YOU Janey (YOU meaning ME)?
It means that as I begin to sew my GIRLSTORIES trilogy of films, MISSING GREEN, NICE PEOPLE and HOMEWRECKA all together for the Cannes Film Festival 2011, and shoot the French Narrator's "missing link" footage, I want to (meaning "wanna") keep the "neo-realistic" frame of my current mind spinning away inside of me head. I want to think Anna Magnani. I want to think no direct scripting. I want to think shoot with an actual non-professional French person. I want to think that I should think about not telling YOU anymore of my brilliant ideas. You may be a thief. Assume everyone is corrupt, and start from there. Right? Right.
Does that make sense to you?
Yes?
Great!
Goodbye.
me
xo
