Why is it named The Pounce?

The Pounce is playful, and fond of unconventional moves, like a cat enjoying catching a beam of light or a dust mote mid air (not to mention crickets, balls of string, and un-minded fingers).

A doubled meaning

Pounce springs from the vocabulary of an art technique for tracing shapes, transferring designs from one surface to another.

In The Pounce, I’m noticing, thinking, trying out ideas between the films I watch and my work on a novel I’m writing, carrying what I learn from one practice of storytelling to another, playing with a grammar of forms.

Pouncing: to transfer a design by the use of pounce, a fine resinous powder formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on unglazed paper or to prepare parchment to receive writing.

Powdered charcoal or other fine powder dusted over a perforated pattern to transfer the design to the object beneath.

Did you know? Frescoes

Renaissance artists would cover a prepared wall with a cloth or paper that had a design pricked into it using a needle or a toothed wheel. A small, porous cloth bag filled with fine pigment powder, such as charcoal or chalk, was gently tapped or "pounced" over the perforated lines. When the fabric was removed from the wall, the pounce that dusted through the holes remained as a constellation of pigment on the wall. This is how the design was transferred. The prepared surface was then ready to be painted. The next day a new section of wet plaster would be designed the same way, until the wall was finished.

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It would be great for you to discover you’re not actually sick of hearing the word storytelling, that it’s still entertainment after all. I hope you enjoy my unconventional take on films, and have a second look, too. I’d love to hear your thoughts, share in what you know, and find out what you’re watching!.