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Leonardo da Vinci is reputed to have said first picture was shadow of man cast upon a wall

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From that shadow of reality pictures became art

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The

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20th century produced its own art form a complex manner of creating pictures in motion

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Beginning as a technological marvel developing into a giant industry

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Films today have evolved new forms of intensely personal expression

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Experimenting with collages of sounds lights colors and expanded horizons of patterns and shapes

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the experimental filmmakers of the new American cinema evoke enormous emotional responses from a new generation of

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film audience

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The experimental film is generally financed by the individual artist and is always the creation of a single person

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Tom Palazzolo painter teacher graphic artist still photographer filmmaker

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Like so many of his generation

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Tom turned to film rather than literature in search of more inventive vital original ways to express his observations of life around him

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Am interested really in building

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films that have a new kind of visual form to them I

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saw some of these films and they interested me quite a bit and they showed me the possibilities that film had of

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extending some of the ideas of of

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painting and

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ideas that come out of visual art

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I started to look into film and

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Because I'd seen some films that interested me very much that used film not so much as a dramatic thing

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But who used some of these satirical?

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Means that film has and who used it probably in an artistic way not strictly interested in in

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theatrical film

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Don't have anything great to say I just want to say it, you know in my way and

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I want somebody to enjoy it because it was just some other person who?

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Who made it you know and who who made it according to his own feelings and who didn't make it?

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According to the way he thought someone else might feel you know who might look at it and and see some of the idiosyncrasies

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And so forth I mean I want them to stay there. I want the peculiarities to stay there

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I mean wow, this is really a great place

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Yeah, the lights really good here Tom yeah, yeah great for great for painting

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Mm-hmm can't beat it boy really is I you know, it's never like this in Chicago. I'll tell you that

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Well, you know when I went back to Chicago, I noticed the light how dim it was there. That's right

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Boy your stuff is

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Really coming along. I know she don't use that here. It's so much that same idea

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I mean the the idea of the of the leaking form know that the color and so forth that

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Leakiness is this is more

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heavier Tom likes representational art more I mean by that he

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enjoys

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Looking at paintings from the past and enjoys seeing the world

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We don't necessarily have the same opinions about art when we talk about art

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Bring something to each other because we always have some opposing points of view to offer

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I'll take Tommy

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He goes right out and he contacts these people. It's a direct relationship between him and his subject

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I'm going to planes a lot too. And you know and directions and space and the whole thing builds and starts and shifts over this way

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Tom came to the midwestern city of Chicago as a struggling art student and settled in to a neighborhood

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He describes as inhabited by the lost the lonely the vulnerable people

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Now a struggling artist he chooses to stay among them and is accepted by them

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Though they never see his films they know they appear in them it is understood that

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By all that they have become the subject matter of consuming interest to him

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It would be too much of a jolt for me to suddenly go into a sort of a quiet

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Atmosphere I'm not that introspective yet. That's something I have to wait for

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I certainly wouldn't want to be sort of kind of isolated individual who goes off into the woods somewhere and does its

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Thing whatever that is, you know, I mean I like the idea of being you know with with different people or people of all kinds

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I try to to keep my ideas going try and build on the ideas and it's difficult to build I'm not really

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Interested right now in developing depth

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In the work, but just trying to reach out and it's like a child

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I really feel like I'm sort of the childhood of my development just sort of reaching for things

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For some reason I've been fascinated by people in hallways and doors

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Especially people who are shut off cut off from things by showing the things around a person

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I can say something about him about his environment the whole thing about a niche

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Sort of religious overtones to it. I mean now churches and that he were have niches with Saints in them

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After I've tried a lot of different things say with one film

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Then I like to to go in maybe do a painting or something because it's kind of the opposite of filmmaking

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It's sort of a relaxation from filmmaking. In other words, I don't think everything I have to learn about filmmaking can be learned from films

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Filmmaking just isn't a be-all and end-all for me. I

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Try and make films and paintings for that matter that that means something to me personally very deeply

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Showing people, you know in a tight environment in an environment sort of encloses them like this door

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You know, it gives it certain kinds of overtones

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It was a picture, you know

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It gives the picture a certain kind of feeling just by the amount of space that you use in the picture by the kind of colors

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That you use in the picture, you know, you can say things

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Even though I don't know anything about this person, you know, I know he's isolated

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I know he's a sweeping something up that he doesn't know that he has a very menial job and that and that it is really his

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environment is

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Is like this small space but something in his face tells me you know that he has kind of a rich

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Internal life that he's a nice person that he's gentle

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It tells me certain things about him and by using these sort of bright colors in the doors and so forth

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That I can show that perhaps that he might live in it. Yeah, they may might have a very small world a very tight world, but

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There's something in there, you know, there's something nice in there

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No filmmaker no artists ever ever said anything original in a philosophical sense not once

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He's always taken his idea

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Philosophers those are the guys who've always been many many steps ahead of any creative artist

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The artist just creates an object that might reflect a philosophical thing that might say something very interesting

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Thanks for coming

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the first film I have is called Oh and it's really a

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film improv improvisation that I did in Chicago, I I went to an event the circus and

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and tried using different speeds and sort of

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match some of the feelings that I had about watching this event and

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The film is really the result of that experiment

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Okay, so I want to hit the lights

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The filmmakers of the new American cinema addressed themselves only to that new generation of audience which is demanding a new kind of film

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In different to even scornful of technical perfections

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The impact of emotion the examination of reality are the qualities they seek

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Film for them is language