Mission Statement:

Why do I want to make films?

Although I've explored many other fields of activity and creative expression, traveling and working all over the world, I've always considered cinema as my passion and film-making as my real vocation since I'm very young. Why do I like Cinema? Because it is for me a "Total" Art, extremely powerful, inspiring and rich, at the crossroad of many other artistic and aesthetical forms of expression. Cinema is also, with television and internet, the most democratic Mass Media of the 21st Century. Only Cinema can touch with the deepest impact the heart of the largest number of people in the world, from all classes of society and from all walks of life.

Even more important, making films is for me responding to a call that comes from the depth of my consciouness, from an intimate conviction, an irrepressible urge to express a personal vision, an author's point of view, a universe and a sensibility of my own. It is an initiative that comes from the heart. It has nothing to do with any calculations, ambitions or needs for acknowledgement or respect. Making films is for me an absolute necessity, a vital obsession. Yet, it has not been always easy to recognize and accept it. Only when I released all my inhibitions and doubts, letting go of all expectations on me, could my vocation as a film-maker emerge and take spontaneously its place in my life, at the center of my existence.

Alas, our educational system and the weight of conservatism and conformism in our society make us lose quickly contact with our dreams, curbing our imagination and our natural optimism and fantasy proper of infancy. How many frustrated artistic vocations? How many creative gifts and talents have been repressed in the name of rigid moral imperatives aiming at moulding serious and responsible adults? We easily forget that to evolve, our society equally needs artists and political leaders. Every organization, whatever its form, enrichs itself from its diversity. Rejecting diversity, being obsessed with conformism, despising marginality, are as many forms of intolerance and exclusion that are condemning sooner or later the society to its destruction and its death.

What would be a world without art, if not a world without beauty? What would be a world without music, poetry or paintings?

Cinema is a new art, a young art emerging in phase with its time. It is in essence a sensorial and emotional art. And what would be a world without emotions, without sensibility, if not a world without life and humanity?

That's why I want to make films. To feel genuinely alive...

I want to make films so that Life continues... So that the world doesn't become a cold, sterile place where man is no more than a mechanical piece of a huge machinery, a dying corpse emptied from all its vital substances, a "non thinking reed" wandering without goals and without ideals, alienated by economic laws and intoxicated by mass consumption.

Cinema, the last land of freedom, is for me the ultimate means of expressing my commitment and faith in Life, the precious Life we all carry inside us.

Paris, October 2006.

Lo Pham
lo@lopham.com

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