Film Supports All Art Forms

Film is the only Art Form that supports all other Art Forms

BY LYNN BIRDWELL

Making quality film and television is a team sport. It’s not just one human engaged in a creative process, there can be hundreds of people engaged in the development and execution of the single creative vision of the film.

When a film is truly great, it’s only due to a masterful collaborative spirit of all the personnel involved because film requires so many specialties and skill sets. A great film must have all cylinders firing in every department, all the way through post-production.

Whether heroic and visionary or a simple formulaic film, the departments and moving parts are vast and include many art forms. Every person involved plays a part in the final on-screen imagery and emotion the viewer will experience.

Most of us know the feeling of being touched by an individual work of art: a painting, song, play, poem, or novel. When touched, we are moved and transported. This, through one particular form of art.

Film, the combination of so many different types of art forms, provides the transformative experience that art is constantly seeking. It is rich and complex. We are allowed an experience viewing film that can sometimes eclipse anything else.

From the initial concept and development of a film, every form of art that can be conceived can be considered and engaged as a part of the overall vision. Film can be the one form of art a city decides to support, which in turn can serve to promote every other type of art in that community.

And when a city embraces the arts, the city and all of its citizens are better for it. A creative industry should be embraced by all in the city of Houston, the fourth largest city in the U.S. Houston’s creative base would include the most international art force in the nation, maybe the world.