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Video: Do You Want To Go Down This Way, Or Go Back The Way We Came?
A film elegy by Bryan Konefsky that uses the lens of loss and grief to explore intersections between memory and artifact.
Running time: 7 minutes
Bryan Konefsky is a cultural worker dedicated to the advancement of independent, experimental media arts through his work as a moving image artist, teacher, lecturer and film festival director. Bryan is the founder and director of Experiments in Cinema, an annual international film festival in Albuquerque that showcases cinematic experimentation from around the world. Additionally, he is the president of Basement Films, one of the few remaining first-generation micro cinemas in the United States. Bryan lectures at colleges and universities internationally, among them the University of Applied Sciences in Wurzburg, Germany; The Smolny Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia; the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada; the University of California at Santa Cruz; Ohio University; University of Michigan; and, Dongguk University in South Korea. His films and installations have been presented internationally in Switzerland, Russia, France, Argentina, Italy, Norway, Germany, Canada, in the USA in California, and in New York City at the Anthology Film Archives and Millennium Film Workshop.
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I don’t want to go back the way we came. That’s how we got here!
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Yes! Thank you, Kathy.
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What a lovely video. “There is no going back the way we came”😭
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Dear Michael, After a year of good and chaos, health and suffering, questions of loss and yet hopefulness for whatever is coming, and the encouragement of a friend this morning to examine not what I used to do well, but the being open to how I am going to be in the now and the future, the title of this post grabbed my attention and compelled my watching the video in the NOW. There were moments of recognition that I was on a path that paralleled Konefsky’s process, but at the moment of his hitting the delete button, I was plunged into the daylight of knowing I could never go back. The grief was overwhelming and the tears of loss were wrenching, but at the same time, I experienced a freedom that I have yet to understand and fully embrace as the permission to go forward in confidence. I may never get to conduct music and a choir again and yet there is music hovering in the other arts to which my concentration has been slowly drawn. At the age of 78 I did not expect yet hoped for the using of my prior talents. Now, I must have faith to embrace the joy of discovery yet to happen and claim the confidence that I always muster when embarking on the next adventure. I need to totally believe that more is waiting to be revealed for me to accomplish. This is a truly painful and wonderful collision of being fully alive with a past and a future. God bless you for providing this particular offering that I never knew I needed. Love to you my friend. Katherine Lawrence
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Oh, Katherine. What a lovely missive. Thank you. I’m so glad you are finding peace and freedom.
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