Healing with what?!
culture wars, no Vision, and it works in live action also
¿What you heard?
One of the best parts about embedding in a community is finding out all of its gossip. I love to learn that, no matter where you go, beef is inescapable.
I recently happened upon the beef between the Leimert Park drummers (let’s call them parks) and the other drummers in Leimert Park (let’s call them in-the-parks).
They sound the same, but they are very different.
When I told an in-the-park that the parks call themselves the Leimert Park Healing Drummers, they were aghast.
“Healing with what?!” they retorted, pointing out how unstudied and ignorant of traditional rhythms the parks are. “You’re using a stethoscope to brush your teeth!”
What you doin’?!
The biggest unknown expense of Aisha Been Leimert Park right now is the price to screen it. Before any festival rigamarole, I want to have two free community screenings in December — one in Leimert Park and one in Altadena since the film is actually about both neighborhoods.
The original intention was to host it at the Vision Theatre. Leimert Park’s only venue, an historic building, and a place that is actually mentioned in the film as a significant early childhood memory for one of the documentary subjects back in the 1970s when it was a Jehovah’s Witness watchtower.
But the dream of a December in The Vision is dead because I have learned that, although they are soft launching this summer, there will be no regular programming in the theater until March or April of next year!!
What you seen??
THE HANDMAIDEN (2016) proves that many of these anime tricks I’ve been inspired by work just as well in live action.
Back when I was gushing over the blatant exposition dumps in Jujutsu Kaisen (2020-), I told my writers’ group “this shit is dope. These anime folks do whatever the fuck they want. I’m gonna do that too,” but folks were pretty uncertain about my plan.
Can I really get away with such things outside of anime?
Yes! Look!
Extended exposition flashback sequence!
Vocalizing the characters’ internal monologues!
Dude, these filmmakers are so liberated!
Hollywood is dying. Time to break free.