Exercises in Procrastinatory Videography
Having plenty of other things to do always tempts me to take on Projects That Are Not The Things I Should Be Doing. Thus, I've been making strange videos. One didn't take long at all because it was just a mash-up for Press Play's Vertigo contest , a contest designed to find all the varieties of movies that Bernard Herrmann's "Scene d'Amour" music can fit into, now that Kim Novak has expressed her horror that it was used in The Artist . (For more on that, see Press Play .) I decided to go with a relatively obscure film, 1931's lesbian classic Mädchen in Uniform , mostly because I happened to have it on my computer, so it was easy to manipulate. That's good fun, but it didn't really achieve my procrastinatory goals, because it took longer to upload it to Vimeo than it did to create it. It also didn't let me achieve my lifelong goal of making a science fiction movie.
