Two weeks to picture. Actually, 13 days now. Here I am, in the home village of my father, San Giovanni di Casarsa (San Zuan) in the Friuli region of Italy. I'm here to make a film, a short, little independent film, called "Animal Blessings" inspired by my father's family, by the complex and unique rebelliousness of Pier Paolo Pasolini, and by the almost mythical tradition of farming life, and especially the work of hard working farming women.
So here I am, about a year after writing the story in my little cabin in the woods, dreaming of scenes in the past, the late 1940's, in a place and a culture that doesn't really exist anymore. Since then, I've left my island home to come and live in Europe, and now finally, it has come time to make this film. And yes, there are children, and animals, and the re creation of the past, in a now modern, hyper industrialized region. It's crazy, yes. And I'm feeling quite overwhelmed, to say the least, as the time to shoot draws closer. So I've decided to share some of this unfolding "locura" with you, to calm myself down, and reflect a bit on this wonderfully strange and always surprising process called pre production.
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