With the end of school, graduations, and the world opening up again, now seems like a good time to think about what inspires us. When coming up with stories for film, I have always found artistic creativity to be the most inspiring because it is the least defined. When you are creating a story and trying to imagine how you are going to tell it with images, it’s not always clear how it’s going to turn out. That can be scary but also exciting – kind of like life.
Now that life is starting to go back to some kind of normal, I’m finding I am thinking more about what’s ahead. For the past year or so, we’ve been in survival mode – just trying to get from one day to the next. Many of our worlds got very small and we were only interacting with one person at a time and maybe no one for long periods of time.
I revisited this short film I wrote and produced with Rebecca Robb Benne and Erin Palmquist, and this main character’s uncertainty about her future but inner calmness about it was a good reminder of how we can just accept where we are now and just see where the future leads us. The film asks questions like “What’s in your future?” – something we all struggled to answer this year.
Take a look and see how this young woman’s journey with her design skills can inspire you to be happy with the present and what you have accomplished so far this year, no matter how small. Her serenity might inspire you to be fearless about what’s ahead.
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