Thanks to all who wished me well on my 67 years of cinema.
Out of those 67, I think I can only salvage about 20 years as my actual learning. The rest was going with the flow of the wastewater.
The uplifting hope is, however dark the waterway turns out to be, the wait for a confluence with the largest singular form called the collective cinema, an unchannelled sea. We are all flowing towards it - artists, audience, and all.
So I guess what I have salvaged as experience can be improved upon before people stop counting my years in this field and start looking for better numbers elsewhere.
Since the Lumière brothers’ first public film screening in December 1895, the film industry has been around for approximately 130 years and 8 months. My team reminded me that I have been around for 67 of those years, more than half of the entire history of the film industry! That is a rather extraordinary thought to take in. Yet, in my own account, I can claim only about 20 years as actual learning.
I am probably the oldest of the Gen Z in cinema. 😊🙏
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