Tim Hetherington, an Oscar and DGA Award-nominated filmmaker for Restrepo was a renowned photojournalist. 41-year-old Hetherington was recently killed while reporting on the war in Libya. Veep of Development for Vimeo Blake Whitman tumblogged a personal and experimental film Hetherington uploaded to the video site just three months ago.
The diary film emerged after World War Two as the portable news cameras fell into the hands of artists, many of whom lived in post-war New York City. Filmmakers such as Jonas Mekas and others. The French New Wave also took up similar gear to create documentaries and narratives which also share elements of the diary film. By the late ’60s, Goddard’s output is so inflected with diary, along with his fascination with American culture, that it’s hard to imagine him being unfamiliar with the diary tropes of New American Cinema.
And in Hetherington’s Diary, you will see the figures of speech where the material is at one and the same time raw but structured. Carefully managed to express interior states. To feel one’s self and share that externally in a speech act. In one’s own ever hard-to-pin-down voice. The bottom line being the finding of oneself in the things and happenings and people around us. The images captured are never neutral, one always has skin in the game (however thick), but what is made palpable via making a film reflects breaths and complex neural activity driving through each of us somewhere deep below any surface. So when we in our watching remake Hetherington’s Diary within ourselves, we experience a ceiling fan or a mosquito net or an absent voice on the audio track to represent more than what exists in any exterior. These significations express a driving yearning, however truncated (for instance by a hopeless splice prematurely terminating the answer to a question), that reaches through life’s mist grasping at hope. A flickering future-tense conjuring of peace, which can only be beauty — which itself perhaps is to be ever predicated upon an inhaling of an early autumn in England.
From Hetherington’s post on Vimeo:
‘Diary’ is a highly personal and experimental film that expresses the subjective experience of my work, and was made as an attempt to locate myself after ten years of reporting. It’s a kaleidoscope of images that link our western reality to the seemingly distant worlds we see in the media.
Camera + Directed by Tim Hetherington
Edit + Sound design by Magali Charrier
19′ 08 / 2010
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