Writing One's Autobiography and Film Directing

[RonPrice]

Millions of human beings in the years at the background of my autobiography came to find in cinema insights into their personal life-stories by observing directors' insights into themselves or their society. Perhaps this is partly because in the last century the fusion of the arts, the sciences and technology has been so seamlessly institutionalised by the cinema. Competing world views are fused and inscribed on human consciousness by skilled film directors. Some film directors like Rainer Werner Fassbinder, to choose one of many, offered film goers a cinematic persona that reflected their own personality. Fassbinder’s films are autobiographical in the sense that they attempt to confer shape and meaning on a chaotic life and a scandalous society, on a catastrophic social and political environment. As Fassbinder said in an interview his films "always place himself at the centre." This literary work Pioneering Over Four Epochs, like Fassbinder's work in cinema, tells of my experience. Other people, other Baha'is, inevitably have a different setting for their lives but, ultimately, there is a sameness, a strong similarity. Like Fassbinder, I tell my story very personally but I give it, as best I can, a universal context.

Film directors all have their signature; no matter how they like the work of other directors, they try to tell their own story in their own way. The generation of important American directors who came of age in the late 1960s and early 1970s: Scorsese, Spielberg and Coppola, among others, just after I came of age in the mid-sixties, have told their story citing the influences on their work. So, too, have I told mine in a work that has burgeoned to over 850 pages. The autobiographical documentary film, in TV and on radio, with its themes of self and identity, like autobiography in print, has been a fascination to western film-makers, to journalists, producers and directors since those late sixties. --enough for now.-Ron Price, Tasmania

[greenlantern]

wow how much time do you have to write these lol

well lots of famouse people have the biographies or auto biographies
my personel faverite has to be "still me" by christopher reeves

it was very moving and has realy inspired me to do something

[RonPrice]

I am a retired teacher; I don't like gardening or cooking. I do lots of cleaning around the house and lots of writing. I'll drop in here occasionally.-Ron

[pflance]

I guess I should learn to create one because I want everyone in my family tree to remember me and my life.. Is there any tutorial for it or should you write one naturally?

[RonPrice]

To each their own....if you find my style useful you can emulate it....I've been emulating others for decades.-Ron