Rilke is always a good choice. Congratulations on finishing your film. Everything you say about wringing ourselves out to create art is accurate. I’m finishing a script for a puppet show right now and it has been the hardest thing I’ve ever created. This video comes at the right time to help me with a rewrite of the climax. Appreciate your gift of this video. Peace.
I resonate very much with your words. I have been an independent musician and filmmaker for 4 decades, I have made similar choices in risking it all to make two feature films and many albums over the course of those 40 years. I am 58 years old, still finding ways to keep doing it, I do not know how to do anything else, but it has become a deep struggle to keep it going. There was a decade or so where I was actually making a decent living as a filmmaker, but things changed and now I'm struggling again, working any side gigs I can get to keep my head above water. I have spent the last two years experimenting with youtube just to keep producing content and stay on my game, but it is honestly quite depressing and deflating when you put so much work into a video and it barely gets any views. Not trying to be a downer, I appreciate the sentiment in your video and I agree wholeheartedly that you gotta take your shots, but I think there are a lot of people that fall for the lie that if you work hard enough and pay your dues you will succeed. Nothing is guaranteed, especially not in the entertainment business - you only hear the success stories, the ones who fall short are relegated to obscurity. That being said, I have no regrets in choosing the art life, I'm certain I would have been miserable doing anything else.
@@fraterseamus thanks for sharing your story and struggles. I’ve tried to develop a bit of zen about the end result and realize for me, as you said, I can’t imagine living another way. I had a corporate job before and I was dead inside. To me this is the life set before me, and with each iteration, learn and grow. The fact that I made my art is a success in itself. Same for you. At the moment there is still a lot of opportunity on RU-vid with a consistency and strategy. All that said, if you have a link to one of your films (Amazon or some other platform) drop it in the comments.
@@ARTandVOID Both of them are posted to my channel now that the rights have reverted back to me from the distributors. I put them on here with all my other stuff, music videos, comedy shit, shorts, it's a real grab bag of random things. I did not 'Niche down" Lol
I definitely don't recommend that. I hope that's not what you took away from the video, as I expounded upon the underlying principles of taking a personal step of faith.
