The Meaning Code | Documentaries with Justin Wells: Looking Down to Look Up @TheMeaningCode | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 42 seconds ago.
Justin Wells is a cameraman, a photographer, and a documentary film maker with degrees in philosophy and theology. In addition to film making, Justin also writes articles and books about the process of documentary film making, how to be creative within the constraints of the process, and how to find and communicate meaning.

He mentioned filmmaker Werner Herzog and the following books:

Language of Creation by Matthieu Pageau

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Unstuck in Time (about Kurt Vonnegut) by Gregory Sumner
Art in Action by Nicholas Wolterstorff

Links that Justin promised:

Justin Wells YouTube channel: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyXsQvWIcCDgFuP8AKWmRgnHI0z4_5QZX

My instagram: instagram.com/justinsmorningcoffee

My website: justinwellsfilms.com

The types of documentaries:
Lament & Celebration
Testimony
Confession
Poetic Expression

4 aspects of a film:
Plot
Character
Atmosphere
Point of View


Goethe quotes:

"...the archetypal process instantiated by each particular form is perceptually distilled, bringing the general and the particular into coincidence: “the particular is the general made manifest under different conditions.

“Nature speaks...with herself and to us in a thousand modes. To the attentive observer she is nowhere dead nor silent; she has even a secret agent in inflexible matter. . . However manifold, complicated, and unintelligible this language may often seem to us, yet its elements remain ever the same.

"The things of heaven and earth contain such a wealth of value that only the organs of all beings jointly can encompass it."