@deanduncan63Saw Michael Rubbo/NFB’s historic documentary, #WaitingforFidel. A great, the great doc example of how humility, flexibility & perseverance …
… can turn seeming or even certain disaster into unenvisioned success, into increase & wisdom.
#WaitingforFidel. Rubbo’s change-of-plan method powerfully demonstrates the difference between an a priori vision …
… imposed on a subject, & an inquiry devoted to defining, understanding & serving that subject.
Like Rouch/Morin’s Chronicle of a Summer, this verité milestone can occasionally feel contrived, forced. Not so much a flaw …
… as an index of preference or priority: they’ll take the epistemological process over possible ontological presumption.
If you’d like, the fact that #WaitingforFidel is all seek & no find—Fidel Castro never shows, for all of their agonizing efforts— …
… actually reflects the decent liberties of social democracy, as opposed to the possible & often dehumanization of inflexible Ideology.
#WaitingforFidel. The title’s an Absurdist pun; but the film itself is textbook existential: …
… fundamental meaninglessness, held at bay & then actually (if temporarily) overcome by industry, civility & decency.
#WaitingforFidel. That spirited shooting ratio scrap is also a superb demonstration of tensions between profit motive …
… and the Public Good. Yes to efficiency & responsibility, but profit can’t always be measured monetarily!
This one could even change your life: http://bit.ly/1RU8dTO