An Arresting Feeling: A short YouTube film-poem

short film-poem: "An Arresting Feeling"


This short short is based on my poem "An Arresting Feeling"; it is the very basic pilot of the full version
which is more elaborated and script- driven. this version is filmed entirely on a mobile cam; the
footages went through lots of colour correcting(stroke distorting) and motion effects in Final Cut Pro.

my voice was also recorded using the mobile; I later used some sound altering effects, added music loops
and sound fxs from the copyrights free Apple Loops and mixed-down the whole thing in Soundtrack...
main Sound effects and tracks used:
Electronic club dance beat and Orchestral string section 75

I had helping hands from fellow filmmakers Mahmoud Mushatat & Ed Kerr who filmed the shots
I appear in; I could have done this with an actor other than myself if it wasn't
for the "no-budget budget" I managed to raise, mainly a London Bus-Pass
It was fun though
Here is the written poem



"An Arresting feeling"


I might be waiting for the bus

Heading towards camden town,
being and looking rather quiet
yet anxious and edgy,
calm and furious,
yet sad
and saintly-crazed and dubious
all at once, as I usually be
when I dream of movies
I could've featured in...
(Yes I'm an actor! I'm a mask contractor
My whole take in life
is rather queer)

I might be waiting for the bus,
The world is soaked in rains and tears and melodramas
The stage is set, and I for one
Is seen by no on-lookers
Observed by no observers
But the cool and cold, but the red and the bold
But the sick and the sickening
Eye of the method actor

(I don't usually feel offended by my "insignificant-ness"
by not being seen for reason of colour, not mist or fog
And I don't really get engaged in self/observing acts of living
unless provoked )

I might be waiting for the bus,
as I get immersed in this immediate feeling
this "arresting feeling",
"stop and search your soul" kind of feeling...
And it's not an actor, playing me
It's not a character -- enacted me

I' am singled out!

I' am seen by

- Not my own collective single-being
Of an actor -

But by the fully-enforcing gaze
of the Yard's contractor

h.Kheir, 29th Dec 2007

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an arresting feeling
made & written by h. Kheir
recorded june 2008

حلو يا فرده !

حافظ خير..
ازيك
اخراج جميل.. تصوير برغماتي جداً.. و جدل حميم في الالوان..

جنون لذيذ يافردة، انه اليومي الذي يتلصص على البني ادم هناك وسط غابة الزحام والبلاط والكلاب الضالة والشرطي والنص الشعري الهارب، والمتفرجين في فيك، او من اي كوكب جيتن جيت؟؟ عمل ومضة عابرة وبصمة معبرة، ونسمة وسط كتاحة بنو الاصفر، واصل النحت حتما وصلت الرسالة، ارقد مبدع، (خارج النص رقم تلفونك طشا مني).

فردة سلام،

والله فاكرك كفنان، عملتا حاجة من وحي المطاردة للابرياء في شوارع كيغالي الخرطومية، او المنظر البدمي القلب، لاطفال المحارق او المجاري، البسحلو في حر الهجير، مكتفين، او بصرخو بي صورة تخلي الواحد يغمي عليه!

ياتري ليه يافردة؟

ماسر لامبالاة حتي المرهفين امثالكم؟

حاجة تحير!

سلام وشكراً على الحضور يا فرده
Bashasha, honestly, reading you closely in the last few weeks, I really had
the disturbing impression that maybe you just don’t take yourself (and what
you write) seriously at all; the result, of course, is that I won’t be able to take you
seriously either…and that, ya Bashasha, is very, very worrying for your dear deader

I hope am wrong

Your “dear reader”, farda

...

..

COOL


REAL COOL


Sur real cool

..

Quote: short film

..لكنه احتفال بـ
.. الشعر ،
.. والتصوير ،
.. والوان .


شكرآ لـهذا الفن


غيداء

-Farda

Nice one!! I like the answer "black African" for the no-question-asked attitude of the Yard man who would rather check if someone have a ticket or not, and attract an on-the-spot fine rather than the endless form-filling that may result from the "identity" question!! x

Stay well and acting


Adil

عمل مدهش ................

ياحافظ

You made my day man

تحياتى ياحافظ،

عمل متماسك فكرة وتنفيذا.

شكرا لأثراء ساحة الابداع التصويرى السودانية الفقيرة.

وطبعا "غدا أفضل"


.

الأصدقاء رفاق ورفيقات الأسافير
طلال
ثروت همت
محمود الدقم (راجع الماسنجر الداخلي) ،
ميسون النجومي
غيداء أبو صالح
عادل إسحاق
وخالد كودي

شكراً على المشاهدة والتفاعل والتشجيع يا أصدقاء،

Farda

...

عمل جميل
اختيار اللغة والتصوير والاداء الصوتي والحركي
لفتت نظري الموسيقى المصاحبة
دا جنون واختيار عجيب
حاجة تحفة







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حاجة تمام

Rawia يا فرده ، مرحباً بك دائماً...
الموسيقى مبنية على "تراك" ايقاعي ومؤثرات صوتية وأضفت لها وترية أوركسترالية دائرية (loop, in English)
وفي النهاية قمت بمزج التراكات مع الصوت المسجل في الموبايل على برنامج صوتيات اسمه سانودتراك (Apple software)

الود المقيم؛

ح.خ