10 Years Later

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The creation of the movie “10 Years Later” was, after all, a sweet accident, and I probably will start to say this to my filmography in the future as well - a creation made of consistent ramblings through pre- to post-production. To retrace at almost 1-year-mark after thinking of developing this piece into a film, it was almost like an intrusive thought wanting to do this after reading O.Henry’s novel “After Twenty Years”. Not because I am drawn to certain specific neons of this original context, but the fact that this story was something that could be developed with a student budget and with raw, realistic settings (ie, streets), and the rest iconographies and symbolism were to be determined. It sparked for an instant, just took 5 minutes in the afternoon, and a decision was made.

With merely an urge to visualise the context, even though I credited myself as the director, I was more of attempting-to-be the visual advocate of O.Henry. Little did I know, this caused two serious problems - a) I have never nor never will be able to meet O.Henry himself to ask about what film he would envision his story to be and b) even if I have a time portal machine and can travel back in time to meet and talk with him about this, we have seperate brains that would 100% differs upon the perception of this story - I cannot percieve his thought, so does him, not even counting the diverse cultural backgrounds with a decade in advance of the boost of cilvilization. Or, hilariously, according to Barthe, not even O.Henry himself as compared to when he wrote this short.

In this case, the saying then becomes ultraly vital. The process of writing is similar to the process of filmmaking in this regard - an enduring process, never a momentary job, yet the spark is fleeting. Thus, for those imaginative artists and me, it must be a pain in the ass, yearning for the flourishing and attention of a sparking id...