FEELINGS

In this very short essay, filmmaker and academic, Erik Knudsen, shares intimate and delicate creative practices that lie at the heart of his ideation process. With this in mind, he briefly outlines two anecdotal experiences related to feelings and ideation, each bookended by an inspirational quote and a practical working axiom that he has derived from these experiences. The first anecdote relates to the engagement a screenwriter has with the commissioning process and the challenges to creative identity that such engagement can pose. The second anecdote speaks very much to an experience about the screenwriter’s relationship to the sublimely unconscious. Both experiences speak directly to the screenwriter’s need to be guided, first and foremost, by feelings.