Experience

Andrea Kreuzhage & Someguy riffle through "1000 Journals"

In 2000, a San Francisco graphic designer with the humble pseudonym of Someguy had a wildly ambitious brainstorm. He put a thousand blank journals out into the world in stages, opening the spigot on a torrent of contributions encompassing everything from knocked-off diary entries to poignant confessions to obsessively crafted art. Nonetheless, after three years, only a single completed book of 220 pages had made its way back to Someguy. The 1000 Journals project has mushroomed in the intervening years, inspiring both a book drawn from journal entries and a documentary, 1000 Journals, that tracks down participants around the globe and raises a host of fascinating questions about creativity, collaboration, community and communication. We sat down with Someguy and first-time director Andrea Kreuzhage, a German producer who’s lived in Los Angeles since the mid-‘90s, during the first of three screenings of 1000 Journals in the S.F. International Film Festival. (Editor’s note: At one SFIFF screening, another journal was returned to Someguy by Erin Gardner. The film screens again Thursday, May 1, at 3:15 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas.)

topics: art, authors, bay area, directors, q&a, san francisco international film festival