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  Wednesday, Jul 1, 2009 1:56PM / Standard Entry / Members only
  

  I had an interesting time when I returned to Oz recently and tried to dig up copies of my short films, film reviews, etc. I counted 7 films on VHS which I brought to Hong Kong, transferred to VCD and hope to upload to youtube, plus 1000+ reviews some of which are online, a couple linked on rottentomatoes but most of the links are dead from now defunt websites...so I have to start from scratch...
  
  It's odd looking at works I've created, written, drawn, etc., although I am proud of them, in a way I feel disassociated from them, as if it was another person that created them. All the pain and effort they took to make is a past memory and I only see a product now whose flaws are all too obvious. The reviews, more than the films themselves, I enjoy to read and have formed the biggest portion of my professional life so far, and the most important, it was a stint at the talent press in berlin in 2004 and then a jury position with FIPRESCI in 2006 at the venice film festival that eventually brought me to hong kong where the bind of making ends meet and working as an artist is one i have to deal with, as do many others i am sure.
  
  however i still view it as a city of possibilities and am happy to call it home.
  
  my film website, www.lightsleepercinemag.com should be up and running again soon, and it is one thing i am very proud to have created, with previously unpublished articles from the likes of peter cowie, ronald bergan, and so on and so forth, as well as many pieces all but unavailable reprinted often with new introductions from the author, and originally gleamed from the piles of old film magazines that piled my room and gave it the smell of dusty paper.
  
  i remember a quote from woody allen, went something along the lines of not wanting to achieve immortality through his work, but wanting to achieve it through not dying. i was going to add something about the poignancy of this quote, but in the wake of michael jackson's recent death i think it speaks for itself.
  

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