User:Aitantv/p r o j e c t

PRACTICAL

KEY THEMES

• Hybridity
• Tribalism
• Surveillance (hyper visibility)
• Predator/Prey relationships

FORMAT

cooking interview / fieldwork

• sound divorced from image

the host / the host

• the host - director cooking stew for speculative scenes

the guests / the parasites

• specualtive scenes - talk (of the host) from behind the camera

which camera lens?

• Is it a combination of camera approaches?
• Is it a simple handheld DV camera? This could help overlap with Paranormal movies (like Blair Witch) lending it a certain authenticity
• A wide lens for the indoor scenes and a more narrow lens for the outdoors? Or go even wider with the outdoors to reference surveillance.

RESEARCH IDEAS

• food related internet conspiracies

RECEE

• greenhouses south of rotterdam
• Het Nieuwe Oost Cemetery
• Synagogue in Bourtange
• Mevalana Mosque (name after Turkish for Rumi)
• Mescidi Aksa Mosque, Den Haag (very near gallery 1646)

INTERVIEWS

Salimah Gablan, Coffee Meeting, 02.12.22

Yaakov Gablan (father)

• A painter who moved from Iraq, to Israel, to the Netherlands.
• Looking for connection in older life he went to Schak, a chess cafe, enjoying the games and community. The men from the Schak came to his funeral.
• Favourite Iraqi dishes are Kubba Shorba (meat, onion, herbs, spices) and Torshi (pickled vegatables). Also mention of a lebanese fglat bread
• The funeral took place in November 2022. Yaakov was wrapped in a linen showl. Olive branches garnished his body. His paintings decorated the space. Light flooded in through the open doors.
• his children were important to him than his own sibligs who he'd had various disputes with, usually in relation to money.
• He is buried in Het Niuwe Oost Cemetery - specifically wanted to be buried in a public cemetery - but his wife Christine (Swiss Dutch) wanted him to be buried in a Jewish cemetery.

Jewish diaspora

• tribalism - the idiosyncracy of each and every jewish family and custom
• embodied otherness - it's something you can't get away from - it carries through inter-generational - even Salimah's daughters are considered other, 'where are you from?'

Resources

• R - The Hadji, by Leon Unis (Jewish Arab symbiosis)
• R - The Jewish Bride, by Judith Neurick (the disappearing history of iraq)
• R - The Story of the Jews, by Simon Schama / Russel Shortall

TUTORIALS

07.02.23

Rosella

• is there anough depth in the interviews? maybe reveal more or go deeper
• could become a larger patchwork
• could be there interviews pull you out of the fictional elements
• meeting around the table - a group encounter - where all the pieces come together
• the interviews certainly feel like real life
• interesting interaction between the enacted and documentary - you wonder about the connections between the elements - the interviews are so focused on the narration and the fiction is a more spatial/visual representation + but there is connective tissue
• W - Pere Portabella 'El Sopar' (1974) - collective discussion, political action/activism, people meeting, preparing dinner, and eating - the context around the political oppression
• what is the most simple thread - write a scene which concretely depicts this
• more intentionally pushing communicating the relationship between artist-host-parasite
• now you have ingredients but you need the recipe - reduce the ingredients
• the dinner table - a place of universal connection - relatable from different backgrounds - hints at this with G-Zi - now you can expand to have an ensemble cast -
• the interviews/vignettes could be establishing shots of the guests at the dinner
• Bela Tarr - https://www.eyefilm.nl/nl/programma/bela-tarr/125976 - film about banquet with homeless people -
• part of the banquet is the duration of the event -
• Bunuel - discreet charm of b - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discreet_Charm_of_the_Bourgeoisie - (1973) so might have influenced
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyoAiP4mGhE&ab_channel=FilmStruck
• how to render visual considerations around 'hungry host' - how to maintain the subtlety of the themes between multiple characters - explaining big themes through simple small talk -
• believability - project is closer to reality so absurdism can be relative