since some of us here have taken it upon themselves to create as hostile an environment as possible (ahem, “username” ahem), i thought i would take this chance to formally introduce myself and perhaps diffuse any tension, or at the very least demerit some unfounded opinions.
my name is jerry buster foster and i am a professional filmmaker (don’t bother looking me up on google or imdb, i’ve taken great pains to avoid my own self-commercialization). my oeuvre includes works as Yardstick Clothesline, Merry Xmas Santa’s Dead, and A Long Slow Death in August; the latter i both directed and co-wrote and garnered several award nominations. you will notice a slight twinge of the macabre in the titles – this is to do with my personal philosophy on the nature of human action. our will is what it is, but my fascination is what we as human beings are willing to sacrifice to see that will fulfilled. sometimes we surprise even ourselves with our eager willingness to explore the darker shades of our own humanity (see medea, macbeth, even the archangel gabriel as examples).
in any case, i mined my art in order to bring dimensionality to my audiences (like i imagine any artist does). i would hope that potential viewers of my films would walk away with a greater capacity for self-understanding; or in other words, that we are all tireless agents in pursuit of our own self-actualization and self-creation. even the darkest chronicles of human history (colonial slavery, the holocaust, 9/11, et cetera) could be redefined as circumstances of radical yet unthinkable creation. i know it is an unwelcome truth, but a truth nonetheless.
“if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” -friedrich nietzsche
-JBF
Nice post man. i’ll need to look into yr movies!
Yawn.