Chuck’s Films

I started making short videos to solve a problem with my projects. They often include far more subjects than end up in book, exhibit or even on a website. These subjects, though unseen in the final product are very important to my understanding of what a project means. In a video, I can show everyone who generously offered to participate and can use the soundtrack to describe the project.

In order to get better at making these “project” videos I did some course work and began to make artist interviews. This revealed to me how much of my still photography owed to film. These interviews follow the same arc that I hope for in a still project. I was delighted. That was the good news. The bad news is that video does not lend itself to doing everything myself. Doing an interview when I am the director, the director of photography, the sound man, the gaffer, the grip, the interview, the editor, and the script girl is seriously stressful. I love doing them. I dread doing them.