From: Steve Polta (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Feb 17 2009 - 20:30:46 PST
Assuming the internship does not pay your bills, my sincere advice would be to bail on the internship and find something else to do with your time. Make film. Watch film. Read about film. Think about film. Take walks. Read about subjects other than film. Look at the rain. Watch the sun rise/set/go behind a cloud. Talk to people on the bus. Write letters to friends. Write stories. Seriously. Anything. Surf the internet or bake brownies. If the internship is a school thing, it's so early in the semester that you'll be going nuts over the next eleven or so weeks. You've paid for it; you'll get an incomplete——let it happen. What's the worst that could happen? Maybe you could intern/volunteer somewhere where the folks you'd be hanging out with dig film like you do. Or an art org. A political org. A library. Community radio. Etc. Something fun and inspiring.
Your internship experience sounds horrible. I wouldn't know from first hand experience, but I've been told that, in that environment (studio production) it can be very difficult to manage side work such as you seem to desire, due to such issues as negative peer pressure and lack of supportive community, the big suck the deal has on creative energy, perhaps even general life negativity and jadedness from co-workers. Find people who get it and try out hang out with them in some way. I have a feeling that they are not in the studio production world. Is this internship a "career" thing? Is this seriously the world you want to live/work in? If it doesn't inspire you, seriously, what's the point? Don't let the bastards grind you down. Rise above. blah blah blah.
————steve polta
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Mr. Jason Andrew Forsyth <email suppressed> wrote:
> From: Mr. Jason Andrew Forsyth <email suppressed>
> Subject: HELP!
> To: email suppressed
> Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 6:29 PM
> I thought this would be a great question for everyone on the
> frameworks
> platform. Does anyone have so advise, motivation for
> someone who is
> passionate about Experimental Film but is trapped as a
> studio
> production intern. It's to the point I hate waking up
> to goto "work." I
> do shoot my own stuff on the side but it suffers because I
> have become
> so aggravated with the internship. Does anyone have any
> advice I can
> keep in mind will finishing up.
> Best,
> Jay
>
>
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