Trygve A. Diesen: Being the Director - Maintaining your Artistic Vision While Swimming with Sharks
Stipendiat ved Den norske filmskolen, Høgskolen i Lillehammer
How can a film director maintain and nourish a personal, artistic vision in such a collaborative and highly commercial art form?
The plan is to document and discuss my own work and role as director during the next three years - on video, in autoethographic fashion, much of it as a video-diary/confessionals/vlog. This will be the core of Being the Director.
I will also interview leading, international directors that have managed to build a career by leaving an undeniable, personal, artistic imprint on a body of films. I will choose directors from a variety of continents, countries and hence, production environments. Through personal interviews I hope to extract and formulate possible definitions of what a personal, artistic vision actually is; and, more important, possible strategies on how to implement and keep this vision through the whole production process.
It will be a kind of discussion where my ongoing experiences will face the sum of (some of) theirs. I hope to find answers that will contain at least a core of universal truth or interest. And there will also be discussions on methodology and how to focus - on what questions to ask, where in the film making process the most important decisions are made.