48 Hour Film Project + 24 Hours =

I finally - finally - got to participate in the 48 Hour Film Fest this weekend. Every year it's right around my birthday, and I always find out about it after I've already made plans, but this year my friend Jon booked me well in advance. I was kind of bummed, to tell the truth, 'cause I was expecting a big part, and instead I got...not a big part. Which sucks. But it was fun to just participate in the process (she said good naturedly...but seriously - it was).

It turns out I know people in a bunch of different films that were submitted, which feels good - reminds me that I'm part of an artistic community. But I still feel that gnawing feeling I described a few posts back, of wanting to do something more artistically meaningful. I was riding on the train back from New York earlier today (I made an overnight trip up there for work), and staring out the window at the train tracks, I found myself scoring the moment to the music I was listening to (as I'm sure so many of us do - I felt like a cliche even as it happened)(Regina Spektor, by the way), and I just felt this...stirring.

It's like agita - this burning driving agitation to create something. What, I'm not sure, but bits and pieces of ideas are generating, gestating, below the surface - I can feel it.

To be continued...

P.S. You can see the film I'm in ("Leon!"), the film my buddies at WIT made, and all the other entries at the AFI Silver Theater this week. (Leon! is Friday at 9:30, WIT is in the Thursday/9:30 block...)

P.P.S. Update: you can also check out another entry, called "While You Still Can," featuring most of the cast of the WIT troupe Caveat.