1000 Journals

Directed by Andrea Kreuzhage

I was having a really bad day.  Everything that could go wrong had.  I felt exhausted, beaten and completely uninspired.  Seemed like a great time to watch a documentary.  LOL!  We had met and interviewed Andrea and ‘Someguy’ Brian Singer at AFI.  I thought that they were great and was glad to receive the screener since I didn’t get to see it at the festival.  (Why is there never enough time!)

 

Every so often comes an event that you really just want to be a part of.  There was Hands Across America, Woodstock, and here lately the 1000 Journals Project.  1000 journals were sent out across the world by artist Bryan Singer who went online by the name ‘Someguy”.  He laid them in bars, bus stops, bathrooms, all over the city in the hopes that someone would pick them up and read the instructions and someday it would hopefully return back to him.  Some have.  Most have not.

 

People were lining up on the website, trying to get one of the journals next.  Some were passed around and were tracked down.  Others seem to be lost.  Stuck in someone’s home unable to reach its true destination.  I want one.  After interviewing filmmaker Andrea Kreuzhage and Bryan Singer I got to sign one and be a part of an artistic movement that I was extremely glad to be a part of. 

 

This is a fantastic documentary of a movement of expression and the people who wanted to be a part of it.  Some stories were sad, some happy but all were extremely moving and interesting.  I am amazed at how Andrea was able to track down all of these people all over the world.  It is a fascinating story that truly made me happy to be a part of something so important to the history of world culture.