Film By
David Roy Duenias

Music Composed & Arranged
Moshe Bonen

Cello
Yoed Nir

Sound Mix
Nir Shalev

Réalisation : Branislav Jankic
Cast : Mathieu Charneau, Peter Pagan, Travis Cannata, Esmir Redzepagic, Alex Eroe, Ellie Ross, Nomi Ruiz
Entraîneurs de talent: David Roy Duenias
Musiques : Franz Schubert – Mvt 2, Piano Trio 2, Op 100 (Domaine public)
Jessica6 – White Horse (Bourough Doll Publishing)
Production : Mark Mayer – Kris Lindblade

Last week i had the privileged of working on the set as an acting coach for the talent for MUGLER S/S 2012 Photoshoot.
I was brought in to the team by my friend Branislav Jankic who was the director of the shoot.
Here is one picture released today on NY Times.

Hi mother,

As a followup to our conversation on the phone on Monday….

I have been thinking a lot lately and as you might sense i am on the verge of a change. i feel it. like a birth there is the inevitable pain that evoke while in that remarkable journey. but as you ask any mother about birth experience, they all say there is nothing like it. you better know….:)
there are a lot of changes . I feel it in me. in my whole essence. Energy that reflects my spirit, and my body. I remember you asking me if i am still keen about acting.

Well, as you have senses, this question usually makes me unease when i am confronted with it. cause it puts me in a position where i am expected to prove to other people on my ongoing passion. as I said, acting is a form of _expression, hence an art form. its a mirror to our creative force. but that force is not the same all the time. some times the artist has to focus on the outwardly matters to invoke the inner force that forms his engine for creativity.

I am glad i had taken upon me the decision to go away. i feel that it was all an illusion ( me having a decision) but rather a calling.
a reminder of the divine spirit that is in all creation or as Yogananda says in his book, the omnipresence.
acting is living in my point of view. my goal is to reach divinity that will propel my acting to another level, where my mission is to bring Truth through my acting – That I can only accomplish, honestly, after incorporating God in my work.

Now here is a better understating that everything is for a cause. one cause.

No wonder that many years ago actors were scarce cause they were considered closer to god from all other people. today I can only say that there is something true in that. Acting is the art of transformation. However, not externally but inwardly. That is divinity. Because every form on earth has the light of God – The same “seed” of creation but with a different form. That is fascinating to me.

So to go back to the change that I am having. After all that’s a reassurance to the fact that i am Alive. Indeed!
I prefer endure the pain and discomfort of big changes in life than to be idle in a “comfortable” aimless life. where i have surrendered my self to the material and external commodities in life, deluded that they replace my self realization, my purpose.
Like sages, teachers, artists – it amazes me every time I encounter the Truth in a different outer form, yet the essence remains the same. They all talk about practice. or “work, work, work” as my teachers say. Only through work one attains realization. and for that one needs to have discipline.

As I read in an acting book that an actor (yet for me it includes every artist) needs to maintain 3 things. Creativity, but to attain it one has to be free – therefore Freedom but to attain freedom one has to be responsible – therefore Responsibility. everything in life is in the end very simple. Yin/Yang – Heaven /Earth.. .etc. everything stands in creation only through opposite forces applied together.

In life we constantly asking questions to ourselves. Trying to resolve endless numerous issues from tiny little matters to big dramatic ones. The larger they are the more energy we are investing in trying to resolve them.
So does the actor need to do in preparation for the scene. “Ask” all these questions as the character does. That ads this level of realism to the scene. What the character is trying to resolve? Maybe he forgot to turn off the gas at home. “Did he turn off all the lights at home” did he take all the papers he needs to work? Etc… etc… etc. that will bring the leverage and momentum for any action propelled in the scene.
Second. Ad to that the resolution of the actor. What I, David, want to resolve with myself this time I am going up on stage.
The more questions I ask the better. Whether I have answers for them does not matter. The more information I have the more I can use my endless imagination.

Michael Caine:

Michael Caine says that the greatest compliment for an actor is one where you don’t see the “Machinery” of the actor behind the character. It’s when you see the actor performs and portray a character you tell your friend who is sitting next to you: “I think he is playing himself”

Creating Space:

Polina said today that you can’t act a feeling, an emotion. The text and the circumstances are doing it for you already. Like in real life when you are angry, you don’t go on and take actions to enlarge your anger but rather do something that makes you work towards something. Whether it is ranting as a result of anger, whether to dissipate the anger or anything. But not self indulgence with the anger. Cause then its not interesting. It’s not real in terms of human behavior. Create an inner space where you can work from and/or to.
Also when playing pathological characters. Note to your self that they don’t see what an outside eye see. They are perfectly normal where all other people around them are not. So playing crazy, drunk and etc… is not about playing from an outsider point of view but from an inside eye. Never play an idea!