While Shooting…

Posted on 23 July 2010

A quick note while shooting…

That nothing that matters is easy to do. Actually most things that don’t matter aren’t easy to do either. Pretty much everything takes work from where I stand right now. Just to stand still takes work. Even to sleep takes work. Sometimes I find myself waking up out of a night’s sleep, more exhausted than when I woke up…

So if everything is so hard to do, why not just try to do something that does some – I don’t know – good, I guess? Or try, at least?

And then there’s just this thing called humor. Just laughing. This movie has taken a hell of a lot of work (on many, many people’s parts now). It’s just wild to see Cedric and Joel (in the video below) goofing around (rapping, no less) in the City offices of Seattle. Laughing! If you’ve been following this website for the past few months (or for the past year – it’s now officially a year) you’ve been able to follow this wild, wobbly, unexpected journey to a movie actually happening and Cedric and Joel (and Jason, Emily, DC and so many others) playing and working and working and playing…

Not easy. But fun. Not easy. But hopefully really about something. And then there’s Grant Cogswell (the real guy that the movie’s based on) — so thoughtful, so clear. I think his piece on The Tunnel (a few videos back) makes clear why it was so easy (plus a lot of hard, hard work) to make a movie about him.

What a journey so far! Two weeks and two days to go till the shoot is finished and then the editing starts in earnest. A big day today. The last scene of the movie. A whole bunch of extras. Gotta go…