[Music]
hi everybody so elaboration in the arts
that’s uh that’s a very tricky subject
when most people think of an artist they
think someone has locked the world and
creating something unique from their
soul but even the most collaborative art
forms like music theater and film people
usually credit just one person the sole
creative genius and in the film it’s
usually not a director right but if you
think about it what’s wrong if anything
our teams
yet to make a movie construction
industry boycotted on her own and
nothing happened in order to give it
then in 2005 we got into the person
called big-time it is a crime ecology
and we shot it for global of six hundred
thousand pesos well I heard that help it
monster producing both of us writing and
editing but the only way to make it will
be where that little money 600 went the
consequences is by a celebrity and so
that began our bigger collaboration so
after first we asked each other to try
this festival
yes everyone asked a bunch of strangers
without this room
strangers gave us money strangers after
that art film this is all how we should
reach with our life so full and distinct
to everything we had to make this gun we
work very closely together so closely
together that so so we started branding
our filmmaking as a Mario monster show
directed by so from that moment on we
created that ground the more you watch
your show and then when we finished that
film it is well it is an opening it
develop critically and make a little bit
of money not a lot I mean but not only
that it what our names out there and
help billions of years and after that we
actually made a living as filmmakers so
the majority of the work we’ve done
since then he even separately so the
majority of the work we’ve done there
are claims though but there are certain
films that we have to do together and we
know that’s the work that’s important to
us and that’s what we call it how are
you and monster shows so far we’ve done
three full-length films and two short
films
[Applause]
essentially you’re giving a piece of
yourself and you’re making something in
you’re putting it out there for other
people to experience so how do you put
that to the side and actually
collaborate and collaborate in the true
manner is not just things first you have
to find someone you really respect you
have to be aware that you’re trying to
bring something together and you have to
be that the work is going to be better
because you’re collaborating so no
respect for the frustration will kill
the friendship
second in the beginning project needs to
be nurtured the beginning certificate
genital meet each other and you can be
gentle with each other’s ideas but only
end it again
okay so maybe you can remember in time
when you had an amazing idea it could be
for anything a story a business and
invention and as soon as you told
someone about it it got shot down pretty
much because people love to shoot this
thing it may have been the best idea
ever
whatever that I either was or if it
wasn’t the best idea ever it could have
become something new but because it got
shot down we’ll never know a good idea
is like a spark of your pilot’s around
that protect it a little bit
so for example I had this fantastic idea
it’s about four per movie so I had an
idea about four middle-aged women who
had lost touch through the years and in
the fifth member of their burka that
died in acid I even wish requested that
she be brought by her best friends to
her favorite spot in the universe it’s
this some deserted island resort in my
head it was going to be a road movie and
then it was about my fear of losing
position when where you heard about the
story he was like boom that’s great and
what if you make them search so and then
what if they fall in love with a young
surf instructor and fight over him and
who in the end may or may not be the son
that that best friend okay so that’s
quite a leap and ridiculous but what is
even more ridiculous is that as we
develop the story the middle-aged women
and then
disappear and the surf instructor snake
and thus was born a puppy next time our
latest collaboration so just to give you
an idea monster could have been really
frustrating that she had this wonderful
idea for a film about four middle-aged
women burying their desperate best
friend and I made it into surfing film
and I got rid of all the for urban
dictionary but that’s just how it goes
but she didn’t shoot me down and I
didn’t shoot her down that’s just how
the collaboration went it just traveled
from here to there we still might end up
making that first story I still like it
but but she let me run with it because
at that very stage of the story you have
to be cheerleaders for each other’s work
but that’s only in the early stages that
brings us to the next part the next
thing in the later stages you have to
fight and that’s what we heard about
collaboration if in the beginning your
cheerleaders and it
and each other later on when you both
have a grasp of what you want to do when
you have ownership of the thing you’ve
created don’t be afraid to fight you
have to embrace that fight you have to
listen to your anger someone will say
something or collaborator will say
something and you’ll get really angry
listen to that anger and figure out why
my enemy you have to know maybe actually
it was terrible I get it your
collaborator had may end up being the
best I mean I’ll give you one example
you were making a documentary kind of an
American and his harem it’s about that
beautiful American so this is a true
story about America and Vietnam War
veteran who moved to the Philippines the
70s and he put up a harem people the
compound and over the decades hundreds
of women passive mostly other age
mother’s benefit doctors he was
eventually convicted and we met him in
prison and he decided to do a
documentary we had hundreds of hours of
footage monstrous directing this I was
pretty soon and the first footage of
politicians and psychiatrists
we went to the US and he met with his
family and met his best friends we shot
three hundreds of hours of footage and I
knew the kind of film that I wanted to
make I knew the kind of film that it
should have been a bit about colonialism
attitude Alisa we butted heads many
times then suddenly monster and a crazy
thought what if it’s a movie about the
most dysfunctional family in the world
so an America and rapists all his
victims all the women in his life but it
was just another family I thought this
was a terrible idea
it’s the worst idea ever you’re treating
him like with kid gloves you’re making
him too just another person normalizing
something so carefully but she fought
she fought and be fought and never
fought as hard as we did on that thing
but she eventually convinced me because
she fought as hard as she did and what
we found was that when you throw out all
those hundreds of hours of psychiatrists
and best friends and politicians and
lawyers and all the things that would
have made it a different kind of story
when we just focused on him and the
women in his life the women who he raped
and eventually made into his family that
there was a deeper understanding of the
politics that came on and the deeper
understanding of that violence and all
of the things that I wanted to talk
about the colonialism that you delisting
actually all just came so naturally had
so much fun here so that’s how we
collaborate but maybe we should ask a
more basic question which is why
collaborate at all
first off you can make dark Kurt
Vonnegut famously said write with an
audience in mind even if that audience
is just one person for him it was his
late sister whenever he wrote were
trying to think of something that this
sister would’ve liked doing I operate in
very much the same way I want whenever I
make a movie or write something I tried
to think of something that she would
like she’s my likeness and I want to
make a movie that he would like we’re
each other’s audiences you can’t please
everyone but if you’re making a comedy
at least we can meet each other laughing
even communicating with an audience
starts with communicating with one
person and if you can’t do that then
you’re screwed
another good reason to collaborate is to
keep each other honest art could be many
things but good art cannot be this
honest we have to find someone who can
be honest with and sometimes that means
telling the other person that the word
is bad that what we’re doing is terrible
and that we have to improve it in those
times honestly can be the most valuable
things unearthing underneath we have so
aside from honesty and aside from being
each other’s audiences
the biggest reason to collaborate though
for us
life is short and lonely that’s just the
fact it just is
life is short it’ll be over soon and
it’s lonely you’re all alone making art
isn’t only it’s hard to make anything
but anything that’s worthwhile is
difficult and if you can be there for
another person if someone can be there
for you at the beginning of that long
road or maybe at the middle of the long
road and actually especially at the end
of that long really
it really makes things easier makes you
willing to try again so every film you
love think about the films you know
every film is a collaboration nobody
makes films alone not really even the
smallest animated films probably meet
voice actors and musicians funny
filmmaking is like life you need friends
in so many ways you have to find people
or more talented than you are who do
what you cannot like if you’re directing
a film and catering it catering it as
well then you’re screwed
so and you have to remember like minded
people are the ones who change the world
before movements they change the world
whether it’s art business or politics
and hopefully you find your own your own
collaborators in film or wherever
because your parents were right Dada
Dada da Dada
you have to look for the people who will
pushy what do you want to impress who
can speak your language and understand
what you want to do you have to find
those people in your field that you
admire and you have to work with them
because life is short then life and so
you just have to keep on finding those
people and if you don’t find those
people around you then you have to look
elsewhere you can’t find people who help
you become better artists that are
business people to my beings again find
better friends
so Maria and I started collaborating 12
years ago after her first film we became
a couple
so I say cream three full-length films
and two short films we also collaborated
on our most important projects
so you may not end up sleeping with your
collaborator I’m so sorry but you never
know thank you thank you
[Applause]
hi everybody so elaboration in the arts
that’s uh that’s a very tricky subject
when most people think of an artist they
think someone has locked the world and
creating something unique from their
soul but even the most collaborative art
forms like music theater and film people
usually credit just one person the sole
creative genius and in the film it’s
usually not a director right but if you
think about it what’s wrong if anything
our teams
yet to make a movie construction
industry boycotted on her own and
nothing happened in order to give it
then in 2005 we got into the person
called big-time it is a crime ecology
and we shot it for global of six hundred
thousand pesos well I heard that help it
monster producing both of us writing and
editing but the only way to make it will
be where that little money 600 went the
consequences is by a celebrity and so
that began our bigger collaboration so
after first we asked each other to try
this festival
yes everyone asked a bunch of strangers
without this room
strangers gave us money strangers after
that art film this is all how we should
reach with our life so full and distinct
to everything we had to make this gun we
work very closely together so closely
together that so so we started branding
our filmmaking as a Mario monster show
directed by so from that moment on we
created that ground the more you watch
your show and then when we finished that
film it is well it is an opening it
develop critically and make a little bit
of money not a lot I mean but not only
that it what our names out there and
help billions of years and after that we
actually made a living as filmmakers so
the majority of the work we’ve done
since then he even separately so the
majority of the work we’ve done there
are claims though but there are certain
films that we have to do together and we
know that’s the work that’s important to
us and that’s what we call it how are
you and monster shows so far we’ve done
three full-length films and two short
films
[Applause]
essentially you’re giving a piece of
yourself and you’re making something in
you’re putting it out there for other
people to experience so how do you put
that to the side and actually
collaborate and collaborate in the true
manner is not just things first you have
to find someone you really respect you
have to be aware that you’re trying to
bring something together and you have to
be that the work is going to be better
because you’re collaborating so no
respect for the frustration will kill
the friendship
second in the beginning project needs to
be nurtured the beginning certificate
genital meet each other and you can be
gentle with each other’s ideas but only
end it again
okay so maybe you can remember in time
when you had an amazing idea it could be
for anything a story a business and
invention and as soon as you told
someone about it it got shot down pretty
much because people love to shoot this
thing it may have been the best idea
ever
whatever that I either was or if it
wasn’t the best idea ever it could have
become something new but because it got
shot down we’ll never know a good idea
is like a spark of your pilot’s around
that protect it a little bit
so for example I had this fantastic idea
it’s about four per movie so I had an
idea about four middle-aged women who
had lost touch through the years and in
the fifth member of their burka that
died in acid I even wish requested that
she be brought by her best friends to
her favorite spot in the universe it’s
this some deserted island resort in my
head it was going to be a road movie and
then it was about my fear of losing
position when where you heard about the
story he was like boom that’s great and
what if you make them search so and then
what if they fall in love with a young
surf instructor and fight over him and
who in the end may or may not be the son
that that best friend okay so that’s
quite a leap and ridiculous but what is
even more ridiculous is that as we
develop the story the middle-aged women
and then
disappear and the surf instructor snake
and thus was born a puppy next time our
latest collaboration so just to give you
an idea monster could have been really
frustrating that she had this wonderful
idea for a film about four middle-aged
women burying their desperate best
friend and I made it into surfing film
and I got rid of all the for urban
dictionary but that’s just how it goes
but she didn’t shoot me down and I
didn’t shoot her down that’s just how
the collaboration went it just traveled
from here to there we still might end up
making that first story I still like it
but but she let me run with it because
at that very stage of the story you have
to be cheerleaders for each other’s work
but that’s only in the early stages that
brings us to the next part the next
thing in the later stages you have to
fight and that’s what we heard about
collaboration if in the beginning your
cheerleaders and it
and each other later on when you both
have a grasp of what you want to do when
you have ownership of the thing you’ve
created don’t be afraid to fight you
have to embrace that fight you have to
listen to your anger someone will say
something or collaborator will say
something and you’ll get really angry
listen to that anger and figure out why
my enemy you have to know maybe actually
it was terrible I get it your
collaborator had may end up being the
best I mean I’ll give you one example
you were making a documentary kind of an
American and his harem it’s about that
beautiful American so this is a true
story about America and Vietnam War
veteran who moved to the Philippines the
70s and he put up a harem people the
compound and over the decades hundreds
of women passive mostly other age
mother’s benefit doctors he was
eventually convicted and we met him in
prison and he decided to do a
documentary we had hundreds of hours of
footage monstrous directing this I was
pretty soon and the first footage of
politicians and psychiatrists
we went to the US and he met with his
family and met his best friends we shot
three hundreds of hours of footage and I
knew the kind of film that I wanted to
make I knew the kind of film that it
should have been a bit about colonialism
attitude Alisa we butted heads many
times then suddenly monster and a crazy
thought what if it’s a movie about the
most dysfunctional family in the world
so an America and rapists all his
victims all the women in his life but it
was just another family I thought this
was a terrible idea
it’s the worst idea ever you’re treating
him like with kid gloves you’re making
him too just another person normalizing
something so carefully but she fought
she fought and be fought and never
fought as hard as we did on that thing
but she eventually convinced me because
she fought as hard as she did and what
we found was that when you throw out all
those hundreds of hours of psychiatrists
and best friends and politicians and
lawyers and all the things that would
have made it a different kind of story
when we just focused on him and the
women in his life the women who he raped
and eventually made into his family that
there was a deeper understanding of the
politics that came on and the deeper
understanding of that violence and all
of the things that I wanted to talk
about the colonialism that you delisting
actually all just came so naturally had
so much fun here so that’s how we
collaborate but maybe we should ask a
more basic question which is why
collaborate at all
first off you can make dark Kurt
Vonnegut famously said write with an
audience in mind even if that audience
is just one person for him it was his
late sister whenever he wrote were
trying to think of something that this
sister would’ve liked doing I operate in
very much the same way I want whenever I
make a movie or write something I tried
to think of something that she would
like she’s my likeness and I want to
make a movie that he would like we’re
each other’s audiences you can’t please
everyone but if you’re making a comedy
at least we can meet each other laughing
even communicating with an audience
starts with communicating with one
person and if you can’t do that then
you’re screwed
another good reason to collaborate is to
keep each other honest art could be many
things but good art cannot be this
honest we have to find someone who can
be honest with and sometimes that means
telling the other person that the word
is bad that what we’re doing is terrible
and that we have to improve it in those
times honestly can be the most valuable
things unearthing underneath we have so
aside from honesty and aside from being
each other’s audiences
the biggest reason to collaborate though
for us
life is short and lonely that’s just the
fact it just is
life is short it’ll be over soon and
it’s lonely you’re all alone making art
isn’t only it’s hard to make anything
but anything that’s worthwhile is
difficult and if you can be there for
another person if someone can be there
for you at the beginning of that long
road or maybe at the middle of the long
road and actually especially at the end
of that long really
it really makes things easier makes you
willing to try again so every film you
love think about the films you know
every film is a collaboration nobody
makes films alone not really even the
smallest animated films probably meet
voice actors and musicians funny
filmmaking is like life you need friends
in so many ways you have to find people
or more talented than you are who do
what you cannot like if you’re directing
a film and catering it catering it as
well then you’re screwed
so and you have to remember like minded
people are the ones who change the world
before movements they change the world
whether it’s art business or politics
and hopefully you find your own your own
collaborators in film or wherever
because your parents were right Dada
Dada da Dada
you have to look for the people who will
pushy what do you want to impress who
can speak your language and understand
what you want to do you have to find
those people in your field that you
admire and you have to work with them
because life is short then life and so
you just have to keep on finding those
people and if you don’t find those
people around you then you have to look
elsewhere you can’t find people who help
you become better artists that are
business people to my beings again find
better friends
so Maria and I started collaborating 12
years ago after her first film we became
a couple
so I say cream three full-length films
and two short films we also collaborated
on our most important projects
so you may not end up sleeping with your
collaborator I’m so sorry but you never
know thank you thank you
[Applause]
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