Luca's proposal for a project that may or may not be made

What will it be.

A audio visual manifesto that stands for a world where friendship is appreciated as a form of romance. This piece will feature two friends Tam and Bodien. They will talk about their friendship, their views on the status of friendships vs romantic relationships and fantasize how society would function and look like when friendship is appreciated as a form of romance. For the audio you will hear a voice-over of their conversation about these topics. The visual part will be images of them interacting with each other and doing

Notes: Is it possible to do it in another way, to see romantic relationships as some deep friendships, if we see friendship as a general strong connection? Maybe we can also discuss about the difference of them, to define friendship and romance.

In this work, the statement of voice-over must be important.

Why do you want to make it?

Starting a movement that fights for all forms of relationships. Showing the beauty and importance of intimacy between friends. To start the conversation on why we often put a romantic relationship above a friendship and what the border is between the two.

Notes: Yes the border is the definition we should discuss about.

Describe how it would be made.

The steps I will take to make this project will be doing research on relationship anarchy. Reading articles and have a conversation with Tam Duwel who implements this in their live. Film a day with Tam and their friend Bodien, to document their friendship. From the conversation with Tam I will choose some activities they can do so the camera can observe their interaction and connection. So it's more documentary style. Record audio of their conversation to use as the voice-over. Edit for 3-5 weeks. Maybe if necessary rerecord the audio and write a script before hand.

Notes: In my opinion if the video work could be more documented, it would be stronger for me, as a solid proof of a new form of relationship. If I felt about the fiction from the work, it might weaken the power.