Today we have another birthday on the train, but not exactly of one of the crew members: it's the association itself, NISI MASA, which celebrates its 7th anniversary. That's pretty good to have a project going on at the time of the birthday.
The second session of discussion in groups takes place again at the wagon-restaurant this morning. Whereas the team made of Iris, Natasha and Dimitris was recovering by a whole night spent collecting testimonies of dreams on the train, in the morning a somehow bigger-than-usual conflict appeared in one team. Monica and Filip don't understand each other, to the extent that Filip doesn't get what Monica wants, and as he is persuaded it isn't going to work he's reluctant to film anything more. Monice seems to have reached her limits in terms of making efforts and explaining herself, and is emotionally tired. Time of the group session is more than needed! If it has surely not solved the conflict, at least discussion hopefully helped in multiplying points of view on the situation and in sharing the problems.
It is now planned that the team of Monica (in which Eugeniy is the sound engineer) will continue making the portrait of the character met on the train before the latter leaves the train the day after, and will then work at the next stop at the structure of the film.
Structure is also central in the two other films. Iris is disappointed with the dreams she collects and is worried about the quality of the light when filming by night, so the question of making evolve the core of the film is very much at stake. In a different way the same goes for Nikita, Monika and Julien, whose topic chosen – the heritage of Lenin in Russia – could be a subject for a 30 minute, 1 hour or even 2 hour documentary. Mixing the idea of a mockumentary about a hidden treasure left by Lenin and testimonies of common people in front of Lenin's monuments could be quite challenging – not to say impossible – in ten minutes or so...
The second session of discussion in groups takes place again at the wagon-restaurant this morning. Whereas the team made of Iris, Natasha and Dimitris was recovering by a whole night spent collecting testimonies of dreams on the train, in the morning a somehow bigger-than-usual conflict appeared in one team. Monica and Filip don't understand each other, to the extent that Filip doesn't get what Monica wants, and as he is persuaded it isn't going to work he's reluctant to film anything more. Monice seems to have reached her limits in terms of making efforts and explaining herself, and is emotionally tired. Time of the group session is more than needed! If it has surely not solved the conflict, at least discussion hopefully helped in multiplying points of view on the situation and in sharing the problems.
It is now planned that the team of Monica (in which Eugeniy is the sound engineer) will continue making the portrait of the character met on the train before the latter leaves the train the day after, and will then work at the next stop at the structure of the film.
Structure is also central in the two other films. Iris is disappointed with the dreams she collects and is worried about the quality of the light when filming by night, so the question of making evolve the core of the film is very much at stake. In a different way the same goes for Nikita, Monika and Julien, whose topic chosen – the heritage of Lenin in Russia – could be a subject for a 30 minute, 1 hour or even 2 hour documentary. Mixing the idea of a mockumentary about a hidden treasure left by Lenin and testimonies of common people in front of Lenin's monuments could be quite challenging – not to say impossible – in ten minutes or so...
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