What's Inside These Boxes of Dreams?
Published March 19, 2021 · 4:06 · 262,698 views
About This Video
Van opens his collection of dream boxes. Physical containers holding the objects, sketches, and fragments associated with projects he hasn't built yet. The contents are archaeological: each box preserves a specific creative ambition in its original form, before the idea was refined or abandoned. The video is simultaneously a studio tour and a meditation on creative incubation.
What makes this more than a "what's in the box" video is the implication that the boxes themselves are the creative practice. Maintaining a physical archive of unrealized ideas requires faith that their moment will come, and that faith is the difference between a maker who sustains a career and one who burns out after the first good project.
Transcript
let's begin now this spirited man has been schlepping
these military cases across the country for over a decade now
they're like little houses with good solid roofs they tolerate neglect and protect their contents
no matter how fragile or how precious what for what's in them
it has recently very recently occurred to this spirited man that in short
these boxes contain little bits of his dreams past present and future
obsolete cameras and non-camera camera equipment reflectors old tapes an unopened drone
little bits of his filmmaking dreams past present and future
this box now essentially empty is for tool and hardware transport tools and hardware to facilitate his
maker and repairman dreams past present and future the ephemera box
dreams already lived little bits of residue of the dreams of
old one day god willing he might live in a big enough house
to hang this poster a poster for a movie his buddies made
a movie he was in actually so long ago alas dreams end and this one why this one is the dreams pending box a box for the little bits of the dreams he's living right now some toys that his little boy plays with
when visiting dad's studio the waxer he uses to make his art
and and the reward prototypes for his kickstarter campaign
up and running for the next couple of weeks his now thanks to many of you successful
kickstarter campaign a kickstarter to raise money so he can continue making this series you're watching right
now a dream he is blessed to live today in real time
the kickstarter campaign is not yet over and more money directly translates
into more episodes as of this posting there's a bunch of
rewards still available this spirited man wishes to thank you for backing the kickstarter to thank you for subscribing to thank
you for watching as they say in norway two's and talk twos and talk for martin tooth and tuck for martin you
Products & Tools Mentioned
- Kickstarter uses