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Everyday I say to myself YEAH ! because most around me are pessimists
Stay away from me with your negativity ! Anything is possible you just have to sweat every day
believe daily, hustle daily , don't give up and don't go to sleep
They all want everything but few are willing to give everything , are you ? they don't talk ! do it !
use your time ! just do it like NIKE ! I don't conform because I get further and further the more stubborn i remain !
hello my name is Ben Ouattara i am 29 years old , since i am 14 i live in aachen (Germany) I grew up in the Ivory Coast
my father is Ivorian and my mother is German
at the moment i shoot mainly Image-films , commercials and some short films
I plan on going into feature film , I am currently an all rounder meaning that I do everything
lighting , sound , directing , editing basically everything from A to Z
and slowly but surely I progress and get to do bigger projects .
SInce I was a child i always had many images in my head and i love communicating and writing
no matter if in the form of a script a song or a poem ,
there is an expression saying that a picture is worth a thousand words , but a video says more than thousand pictures
you can express so much through sound , images , movement speed and rhythm that i believe it is an ultimate form of communication
and this is why i think that video or film is such a strong medium
can you tell us a little bit about yourself ? it is not very usual that someone is capable of writing a poem ...a poem like this one
and also being a filmmaker and having these skills , what is your background ?
umm my background ? ok concerning the poem , i am also a rapper and the poem actually is based on a rap style
and i recently started writing more poems because i realized that i reach a completely different audience through that style
even though they are practically the same , I mean i once took a rap and performed it a Capella
and the same people that would have said hum rap i don"t know , suddenly said owww a poem !!! so i said to myself ok i need to do that more often
about what subjects my films threat ? that is a difficult question because i have no limits
i would love to do a movie about anything , because there are so many interesting subjects in this world and you can never have enough subjects to write about
but what i am currently interested in are subjects that are not really talked about
i just hot a short film about senegalese soldiers that fought during WW1 and WW2 the film is called "ICH WAR"( I WAS)
I wrote the poem and the short from the perspective of the soldier
that was for most people a very different perspective compared to the image of war they know
because usually the soldier is seen in the executive power and not playing the role of the victim
but in the end they were also victims , especially the africans in this War
and that's why i found it very important to do this project and present it on different film festivals like Cannes , Biberach
in Abu dhabi , Dubai and in many places where most people had never heard of that story and that subject
there are a million stories like that out there everyday everywhere things are happening and i think it is really important to bring them to the surface
wow it was great i really have to say but... it is really like ahh between goose bumps and flushing
i really have to say incredible ! i really need a little break to digest this
it gives you goosebumps , the voice is also so amazing , and....
i don"t even know what to say , these are really 3 minutes that totally go under your skin
for me it is a great movie and also my favorite from all the short-films this year !
it is the best and most exceptional movie I have seen this and last year
the feedback of many people that saw the film was that it was very constraining and made them think
i don"t know if i can change anything in this world with a film , but at least rase awareness of some people
and their perspective on certain things so that it might one day change something in the second or third degree
man i don"t have anymore time to chill , spliff and drink with you ! good bye
use every second of the day as if i already had one leg in the grave
because DISCIPLINE is the mother of success and I want to be the father . yeah yeah ...
sport Is very important to me . I can"t live without sport , it gives me balance
i work so much with my brain and creatively that i need something to be able to switch off and stop thinking sometimes
like the chinese say YING And YANG you have the body and the soul
together they make a whole , you can not only develop one and not the other
and most people only take care of their brain and not their bodies , or the other way around
i had the chance that my mother was a sports teacher
in one year she was even my teacher in school , that was a catastrophe but i don't want to go deeper in this
anyways she really encouraged me since i am 4-5 years old . i did gymnastics , judo
swimming , track and field , basketball , fitness I did it all and that gave me a good foundation
but the other reason I love sport is , it is like a metaphor about life itself
because , how can i say the most important in life is to be patient , it is a marathon and not a sprint
many people who do bodybuilding know this expression : it is a very unthankful sport
because you can give your all for 1 or 2 years and be really fit but if you stop for 2-3 month you are set back 50 %
the stomach starts to show again you loose the power and the vitality that you built up
that means you have to constantly stay at it
this is the same in life , if you want to succeed at anything you need to put in effort
but you will not feel an immediate result because it needs a certain time to manifest
the fitness industry makes million with products and supplements that promise
that within 10 days or 5 min a day you will have the body of your dreams
and show you pictures of models that everyone wants to look like , the problem is that it doesn't work
they are selling an emotion they give you what you want to hear because it is easy, of course everyone wishes that
if it was that easy everyone that walks around would look like superman or have the body of a top-model
but its not the case , everyday you have to take one little step you have to watch your diet
you have to work out , and its not only about looks you also feel better , you pay attention to what you eat how you live
and what i like about it is you realize within yourself ,
if you stay disciplined within your training , lets say if i wake up every morning and go run , train in the evening
watch my diet throughout the whole day , for 1-2-3 month it starts to transfer to many different parts of my life
and no matter who you are or what you do you can be a bricklayer , an artist, a doctor, a teacher
it doesn't matter , whatever you want to succeed in you will have to put in energy constantly , only then you will get it back
the second metaphor I like is : you only get stronger if you take a weight that is too heavy for you
that means if I can lift 50 kg without any effort , i can go and lift 50 Kg everyday but it won"t get stronger
but if i try to lift 80 Kg and realize it is too heavy for me but try it for 1-2-3 weeks then 80 Kg will be ok for me
then i raise it to 90 and to 100 and also my body will transform
that means i grow through a weight that is actually too heavy for me , what does that mean in life ?
you always have to find challenges in life , if you repeat the same action over and over again you fall into routine it is boring
and you don"t grow you will never end up anywhere . but if you choose something where you think it is actually too hard for me
most people don't believe you can make it and maybe you even believe yourself that you cant make it
then it is exactly what you have to do ! because you will have to find a way to transform yourself to be able to master it , and you will succeed
when you train you can train alone or with a partner
the advantage with a partner is he can help you with the repetitions that you struggle with
he can give you a little push so that you make the last rep and people that are familiar with training know that
if i make 10 reps the 9th and 10th rep are the most effective for power and growth but also the hardest
i need to reach to the limit of my power to perform them but will not have enough for a 11th rep
but if my partner helps me just a little bit i can make an 11th and a 12th and gain a lot more at the end of the day
it is the exact same thing in life if you have a partner if you join forces he will support you in hard times
when you suffer under stress time lack low discipline he can give you a push and help you to perform better
the second benefit is of course on those days were you want to procrastinate
and find excuses not to show up because you are tired , have no time ect.. your commitment to your partner will force you
out of respect , he will pull you and of course you will push and pull him when he has his weak moments
it is the same in life in business , in a relationships and friendships