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bespoke 16mm heirloom filmmaking
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ON LOVE
AND (CINEMATIC) LOVE LETTERS.In a lecture burning with sublime romanticism, musician Nick Cave discussed love songs and similarly, love letters:
“they served as extended meditations on one’s beloved. Both served to shorten the distance between the writer and the recipricant. Both held within them a permanence and power that the spoken word did not. Both were erotic exercises in themselves. Both had the potential to reinvent, through words, like Pygmalion with his self-created lover of stone, one’s beloved.
…Alas, the most endearing form of correspondence, the Love Letter, like the Love Song has suffered at the hands of the cold speed of technology, at the carelessness and soullessness of our age.”
Love is a vision, crafted together. For writers, poets, and filmmakers the manifestation of love often takes shape with words, music, or images; artists compose love but it is not just the work of the artist. We all create expressions, visions, dreams, ideas, futures, and beauty. We take love into our own hands and sculpt it with whatever we have - food, nature, laughter, our home. But most potently, we create rituals and memories: our own long lasting and recurring traditions that manifest love through witnessing each other. Your love letter on film can be one such tradition: dimming the lights on your anniversary to watch the 16mm analogue film that you made when you both looked smashing. Love is a glowing, hovering orb and you get to put the brightest parts of each other inside of it so it floats when the inevitable rough patches come knocking. That orb needs film.