Andrew Von Lawrence Presents: An Inner Fruit Salad

A fruit salad buried deep within:

You see kids, this is what happens when you watch too many Terrence Malick movies. All that mumbly existential voiceover you heard while watching The Thin Red Line? It has forever changed your way of thinking about war stories and film in general, and you will probably have to go through a pseudo-philosophic period in your own filmmaking process, in order to "exercise" the Malick-demons from your brain. The last shot in this video specifically shows how one should go about separating flesh and consciousness from each other, creating an infinite loop in time and space, allowing you to see past the materialistic and superficial standards of postmodern society. This ability will come in very handy when trying to differentiate between right and wrong in tough ethical dilemmas, because if the passing of time has taught us anything, it is that nothing is so bad that it is not good for anything. Barf!

T. Malick and his teachings: 

All joking aside though, I threw this small video together in less time than it takes to make a cup of coffee, strictly because I wanted to try out my new voice recording software (The program is called Audacity, in case you are interested). As you probably have guessed already, I have been watching a lot of Terrence Malick films as of late (Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Tree of Life and The Thin Red Line), and having been very impressed by almost all of them, it felt very natural to try and rip off some of his narration techniques. I really dig the way in which he combines his poetic visual style with good old fashioned storytelling, and even though this is more apparent in his earlier work than in films such as The Tree of Life and To the Wonder, I still feel that these films can teach me a lot about visual storytelling and narrative structure as a whole. 

You can find this video as well as a few others on my Youtube channel.