Getting what's already tough, tougher

Games are made of rules and rules don't hinder creativity or objectivity, they stimulate it. Rules make things more interesting and hard.

A long time ago, I decided to offer myself a present on my birthday and it happened to be Ulysses by James Joyce. By coincidente, all the action of the book happens in my birthday.

But I don't want to write about coincidences (do they exist?), but instead about the structure of Ulysses.

The book follows one day and each chapter has an hour of the day, a colour and it even follows the Odyssey by Homer.

Well, let's follow Joyce: each film will have an hour of the day and a colour. I may be literal in the interpretation of these premisses, but that won't happen a lot. The effect of these rules must be subtle, can't disturb the objective of the film and should make it a richer experience for the viewer.

A bigger challenge would be to follow a masterpiece, like Joyce did. Instead of a book, I propose myself to follow what I believe is the most inspired album of all time, Hounds of Love, by Kate Bush. When I say "follow", I don't mean to use the songs as soundtracks, I just want to get ideas and emotions from the music and lyrics.

The correspondence between product 1 and the 1st song of the album is completely straight. The album opens like this:

It doesn't hurt me
Do you want to feel how it feels
Do you want to know, know that it doesn't hurt me
Do you want to hear about the deal I'm making

You
It's you and me
And if I only could
I'd make a deal with God
And I'd get him to swap our places

Kate Bush - Running up that Hill
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What can I say after this? This is the voice of the whales. There's forginvess and at the same time, an appeal to empathy and understanding.

I don't believe in coincidences and I believe that the album will help me find my way through these 11 films. Further more, the 1st song of the 1st album by Kate Bush opens with the sound of whales. In Hounds of Love there is also sounds of whales, but in an homeopathic dose, in the 11th song.

A few years ago I tried to put another song by Kate Bush, Brazil, in a small scene I had done with a couple of killer whales. The sync between the movement of the whales was so great even in the smallest details, that I knew I had to finish the full video clip for the whole song.

Later, this video clip became important in getting this 11 films comission.


Killer pas de deux from Light Search on Vimeo.