Bad Writing Documentary
Posted on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 in Being an Artist, Film, Video, Writing
I love the story behind this film: Guy writes poetry. Time passes — guy quits drinking, gets his GED, starts writing again. Guy finds box of old poetry in mom’s basement and is horrified to find out that he isn’t the poetic genius he once thought himself to be. Guy decides to show his bad poetry to good writers, from David Sedaris to Margaret Atwood, and get their advice about what makes for good writing.
And so, I present the trailer for Bad Writing:
Bad Writing – Official Trailer from Morris Hill Pictures on Vimeo.
“Guy,” by the way, is Vernon Lott. The film is 100% self-financed, and he’s looking for a distributor.
Learn more about the project on Facebook.
This film looks so good.
Pondering other transferrences of art…
A video collage of all my bad improv scenes spliced into brilliant narrative.
Numbering all my paintings from best to worst, then laying them out as dance steps.
Turning my blog into a musical.
Packing a bento box with my favorite photographs.
:-D
LOVE these ideas!! All of ‘em. Yep. Every single one…
Do you think you could get a trascipt for this? I was really interested, but the vid played bad for me for some reason.
Curious though. Dancing before my shame. I didn’t think it was half bad. TY for sharing.
Happy Blogathon!
Natasha
Natasha – I’d suggest going to the film’s Facebook page (link at the end of my post) and asking the filmmaker for a transcript. And your point about not thinking Vernon’s poetry is actually that bad is so interesting…wonder what the full film says about the subjective nature of “good” versus “bad” writing…