During Talent lad the professor of film came to speak to us through a directing master class, Gideon is such a gentle spoken man who I really found a connection with when he spoke of his way of working within film industry.
Gideon’s background isn’t journalist, his interest is in documentary and not journalistic documentary, he became known as someone who makes commercials as a way of making a living, yet this was never his true passion or interest, His true background is of artistic descent, using a stolen notion from “a man with a film camera”, Gideon spoke of how his parents were refugees and when moving to the UK they began being accepted into the community and found a new quality of life, this is what inspires him to wake a film.
He never intended his work to come across as romantic or even nostalgic yet much harsher than that, as a teenager Gideon felt restricted, getting up every morning at 6am to much out the cows on his parents farm, things he loved get deeply resented. He speaks of film as a way of entering a paradox, he would partake in the mundane of everyday yet he would also take off into the landscape and set up timer shots, spending days and nights watching the rhyme of light and the changing sound that arise throughout the day, this became a sensory experience for him, his own escape.
Around this time he was working with film not a digital format, usually having a camera assistant, he profusely doesn’t like sound more importantly music within film, he enjoys the use of Foley only, he goes on to say “what is an expensive shot?” what’s the interior of it? In fact it is bright lighting and a clean shot.
Gideon opened my eyes to his simplistic filmmaking style, that I’ve grown to love over the past year, the simplistic nature of it resonates something within me that I’ll take away with me.
