“we’re all voracious acquirers of information, whether it be books or noises or whatever, we’re just really vastly into what’s going on in culture and trying to synthesize what’s going on.”
lee ranaldo, from ‘this band could be your life’ p.256

"I went to art to school but instead of becoming an artist I became a graphic designer. I didn't mean to do this, it was an accident. A little bit later, I started making music, and then I was both a musician and a graphic designer. This was an accident too, and things were getting confusing. As of late, I've gotten to be an artist as well. By now things are a total mess. Sometimes this is good and sometimes this is not so good. I try to be concentrated and work. I believe in intuition and approaching things as instant gratification. Do the things you want to do, make the kind of pictures you want to make."
Kim Hiorthøy, from "... with all due intent" Manifesta 5 catalogue, 2004

‘Reminiscences’ falls into the form of a notebook, or a diary, a form into which most of my later work seems to fall. I did not come to this form by calculation but from desperation. During the last 15 years I got so entangled with the independently made film that I didn't have any time left for myself, for my own film-making – between Film-Maker’s Cooperative, Film-Makers Cinematheque, ‘Film Culture’ magazine, and now Anthology Film Archives. I mean, I didn't have any long stretches of time to prepare a script, then to take months to shoot, then to edit etc. I had only bits of time which allowed me to shoot only bits of film. All my personal work became like notes. I thought I should do whatever I can today, because if I don’t, I may not find any other free time for weeks. If I can film one minute – I film one minute. If I can film ten seconds – I film ten seconds. I take what I can, from desperation. But for a long time I didn't look at the footage I was collecting that way. I thought what I was actually doing was practising. I was preparing myself, or trying to keep in touch with my camera, so that when the day would come when I’ll have time, then I would make a ‘real’ film. Jonas Mekas, from ‘The diary film (a lecture on “Reminiscences of a journey to Lithuania”)‘