This is the first entry into this web log and official start of Filmlog. We do not claim clear vision about this project nor do we ascribe to everyday commitment. However, we want to explore this form as an option for film and art making.

The Title
There are two titles we have been using so far. The title of the film is not resolved yet - we are keeping it in a movement.

The Heart of Perspective - inspired by Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness. The title connects two important concepts: heart and perspective, two mechanisms that produce two very different realities.

The Real Thing - inspired by Marvin Gaye's song Ain't Nothing Like a Real Thing. It reflects the notion of reality or the "real life" in contrast to the life from an image, "picture on the wall", a life in perspective, in a film, or more generally, a life as an idea.

It can happen that we add a third title or as many as we wish.

Film Without a Film
Our project may appear as an intruder in the field of filmmaking. None of the processes here relates to the classical film production. When we use the word film, we think of a possible film, a hypothetic interplay of image, sound and text. To avoid further confusion, we should think of it as film without a film. In another words, a film space that is not contained to the film shell.

We will build a structure, from inside, through a series of locally developed intensities, that will, through its growth suggest major movements, orbits, possible narratives, becoming perspectives, micro-ideologies.

Perspective
We define perspective as a mechanism that projects virtual or higher dimension into the given realm. In the 2 dimensional space of a picture, the perspective suggests 3rd dimension.

Cinemation
This filmmaking, that doesn't involve a filmmaker and doesn't produce films we call cinemation or secondary cinema.

11/02/01 Friday
...Later in the afternoon, I'm back in the studio. It feels good to be done with errands for today. I'm going to do work now.
Or I can play a game of Minesweeper. I'll tell you all about the Minesweeper. It's one of the four games that come with the Windows system. I play it a lot trying to reach the highest score. The fundamental problem with the score is that it equals the time a player spends finding mines in the field. So once you go down to 141seconds at the expert level, it's hard if not impossible to beat it. The game turns into a maniacal activity and my eyes get full of tears from watching monitor screen intensively.

11/07/01 Wednesday
...It feels good to be in the studio earlier. I'm still not sure what is this project going to look like. While waiting for the real thing, I'm experimenting by making comic book drawings that are based on photos I made earlier. I would like to base the project on film language. While spending time in the studio, I'm also reading "Empire", comfortably sitting in my large studio couch.

11/10/01 Saturday
...In last couple of days I have started to draw comics.Or to be more precise, I'm borrowing from comic book visual style, but without having a clear narrative. The idea came to me the other day, while Pascal and I were talking about European comic books. This is also a first step of connecting my interest in the film with the drawing. The idea is still pretty vague, but some motifs emerged: hibernation, idiot, castle, tourism, etc.

11/12/01 Monday
... I went back to the studio and worked more on the comics. I'm trying to recreate a certain kind of comics, but am not following the common process. The comics are usually first drawn in pencil and than with ink. Since I don't like drawing the sketch in pencil, I'm going straight with ink. That's why they look a lot messier than they usually do. But, this way it's more enjoyable. It's half way between modernist drawing tradition and European comic book. I'm not that interested in the style of drawing, as I want to use this as a step in a development of the narrative for the project.

11/14/01 Wednesday
...I checked my email at the office and went down to do some work in the studio. Drawing comics is not as easy a sit may seem. I don't have patience for meticulous rendering, so they turn out very expressive, that is sloppy.

11/16/01 Friday
...There's a schedule today. First I'm going to the studio, do my email there and make some drawings.

11/18/01 Sunday
...On my way to the studio, I visited the roof of a garage at the Queensboro Plaza and made some photos of the area. I am looking forward to see what they are gonna look like after they get developed.

11/20/01 Tuesday
...I'm having hard time in the studio. I don't feel like drawing any more comic books. Maybe I'll return to them later, but now I feel a need to do something else. Last couple of days I've been thinking of taking photos at an interesting location - the Subway station right next to PS1, the 21th Street stop. It's an old seedy station with corroded steel beams and stained tiles. The station has only one entrance, so if you walk all they way down the platform, the other end of it looks very spooky. I'd like to do something with it.