How Important Is Time?
Maintain your safety in the great journey of change by limiting the dominant role of objectives and instances of achieving the potential of excellence.
Filming took place in a devilish haste. Simultaneous filming, with two teams, the unusual extension of the day of shooting was possible only because the director and his close collaborators were doped to withstand the lack of sleep – all of these, as well as a good organization allowed for an intense work pace.
Sergei Eisenstein edited his own film. Wrapped in film, he always controlled the montage effects at the Moviola. At times, he would call out to Esfir Sub and ask for her opinion. He would call her "his hunting dog", because he would ask her to harshly discover the blurred parts of his film. He said that during this time his head was so full of celluloid that the simple mention of the word "film", that began to be over-detested, started to daze him madly. And maybe something from this daze, something from this chaotic whirlwind of kilometers of film slipped into the very composition of the film.
Haste – this time again – doesn’t allow for the perfection of the structure of film during montage. The spectrum of this haste will haunt them later on as well. That is why at one point he would ask himself with painful revolt: "Will there ever come an era in film when the importance of time will be understood?" *
Can you take on your implication in a process of the type "one-way" on a narrow entry that contains "prompts", without depending upon the exigencies of an endless exhaustion?
The high concentrations of individual experiences and abilities, subjected to an attempt of determining the foundation of scientific work that can lead to innovation and evolution in the field, eventually through accumulations of effects of montage, indicate the dominant role of objectives and instances of reaching the potential for excellence.
This occurs at the level of a specific way of thinking and perceiving work, the world, and the connection between them. And always places you first in the equation of making decisions with which you fuel your skill of teaching others how to evolve. And as fast as possible. At the same pace as you, with the same emotion, energy, and hope.
Your confidence in the great journey of change is given by the insistencies with which you try to stop time, at the same time also involving the people around you. Insistence is a penetrating search for something that no one knows regarding artistic creation, it is a replacement of one form of expression with another that seems more appropriate when we begin to understand things from the perspective of the benefits of exploiting a limited resource of obtaining results.
The presence of time in interaction with everything you try to achieve sometimes signifies as process of the type "one-way" on a narrow entry that contains prompts. Which compels you to keep certain reserves in interpreting high levels of appearances or inner force. Physical and mental vulnerability is felt along with the increase in temperature of the mix between desire, enthusiasm, disappointment, sadness.
If an entry that contains prompts is planned, meaning if the haste that needs to lead to the completion of the work is installed, you have to save the values of the prompt or to specify certain implicit values. These values can be directed towards man himself, towards the reality experienced through the lens of achievements, passing them through the filters of a value system articulated on moderation and balance.
To assume engagement in a "one-way" process on a narrow entry that contains "prompts" means to capture the essence of a work that calls for you in a "present-day investment" engaging in a set of actions that hide elements of prudence, selectivity and fear of outcome.
How Important Is Time? is the question any man of change who knows what it means to register notable achievements asks himself, and that every achievement means a continuous haste, which at times resembles a race whose favorites are adrenaline and overwork.
I conclude this article with a quote belonging to the famous writer Laura Esquivel: "In life, there are things to which you must only give importance if they change the essential."
Essential in the process of change are not the achievements you obtain in time laboriously and with enthusiasm. The essential is you.
* Note: Ion Barna - Eisenstein, Youth Publishing House, 1966.
