For those of you who are wondering about baby-boomers and pre-boomers attitude towards communication technology, here’s a bit of insight into a fabulous 88 year old Episcopalian minister (my father-in-law). In a recent visit to Seattle we got to talking about technology and I pulled out my little Canon Elph to record him. Check out [...]

Rule #3 Share it with an Audience

Another rule in The Five Obstructions is that Leth must show his films to Von Trier and be present for his critique (they drink champagne and eat caviar for every showing). Von Trier is Leth’s audience. The embodiment of his critic increases the pressure but also fuels Leth’s labor [...]

Rule #2 Find a Story you connect with
Throughout most of The Five Obstructions, it is unclear why Leth subjects himself to this tortuous exercise. But at the end we discover that this is a therapeutic process to help him come out of his depression and get in touch with his real emotions in the storytelling [...]

Ever stared at the metaphorical white page in MS Word pondering what to write? In my second storytelling class I learned that the biggest constraint for creativity is the infinite number of possibilities from having no constraints (the white space).
Rule #1: Set Rules
Every week, for the last twelve weeks, we had to produce a video [...]

An interview with Scott Macklin, CTO of UW Dept of Ed discussing how documentaries can be used for formal research and how this applies to his latest film, Masizakhe.
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