Jujube/scenes

homemaking

LOCATION: fabric station, Bree

Bree, discovery of: - journal from Leah - this New Life (Dante) from Amelia - recipe books

haircut

Two characters: M & J.

Stake?

What does M want?

- To get a haircut

What does J want?

- To be with company

- To confide <-- that's an action, why does she want to confide? <-- To feel okay by talking to another person

Blocking:

1. [off screen]J opens door. J offers tea. [lv rm]M browses the books.
2. [lv rm]M picks a book. Goes about noticing new things.
3. J enters the living room with tea and snacks. M asks J about the book she has picked out.

More to come

Beginning shots:

production notes

Jujube/scenes-production-notes

editing notes

Start with the voice track, it is the script. The visuals are performance. The visuals are music and are not necessarily real-time.

Tutorial with Simon 30/09

Other notes from the tutorial

• develop a grammar
• voice track as the script <-- first to do
• the ebbs and flows of small changes
• carefully think about social distance - boundaries
• layers of interactions

homecoming

SF, London. Various living rooms; dinners and deliberate conversations

Breakfast conversations

I want to use the audio from the conversations in London.

From the bones of lemon to Adam and Eve.

I was able to have these conversations because I was in an extremely comfortable place: a nice kitchen/living room (physical space) and with Nuri (psychological space).

- Transcripts first -- this could be a publication -- but I am seeing shots happening in the photo/video studio as in an epic journey (dramatic lighting and all). I am seeing hands performing: showing lemon seeds and peeling apples.

transcript

- Are there a lot of apples trees, um, in Hooke, where Luis is?

- It's quite nice actually... No, I haven't seen plantations of apple trees

- orchards

- chestnut tree, apple tree, um...

- Uh...

- What's this other one... Chestnut, yeah. A lot of berry, blackberries, wild berries,..., lemon, elderflower, just a lot of wild things combined

- Mm. That sounds like an English garden

- Uhmmm. English gardens are so beautiful, I realize, it's like very curated but also kind of wild, it's not the French trimmed super human work garden. It's really nice

- Yeah. I guess in Kew Gardens it will still be kind of planned

- Cause it's more greenhouse... And it's also royal

- (laughs) Why is everything royal so — maybe the term royal just means it's needs to be manicured... by other humans. It's kind of a metaphor for hu — for class. You have the humans who take care of the trees, like the gardener, is such a staple figure in, like, the royal

(tap water running)

- But the funny thing is, the history of fanciness, or royalness... is so weird... Too many things, to many ornaments

- Yeah I guess the period of Baroque... The Romantic Period

- The Romantic Period never ended... no?

- Yeah. I wonder when the Buckingham Palace was constructed. That will say a lot

- I don't know.

- Yeah, well... I am too — non-conformist tourist... We should just read the wikipedia don't

- Oh wait today's... Sunday at the Buckingham I think is the changing of guards

- Ooo

- I've never seen it couldn't be interesting

- Would, would it be on our way to the — to where Mo is?

- Not exactly, but no so far

- Yeah that could be a plan. Finally my third time in London maybe I should see something (laughs)

- Uhmm

3:30

- The seeds...

- I don't know why in Spanish these are not called seeds they are called bones

- Really?

- Yeah, you would say los huesos

- Mmmm

- That's weird no?

- Interesting but when you look at it they do- do look kind of bony with like a ridge even

- ah yeah... bone of lemon

- The bone of lemon that's actually — ah no wonder pablo neruda is obsessed with it

- with lemon?

- He's obsessed with the color yellow...

- no wonder

- The bone of a lemon, wow

- Bone marrow of the lemon

- Cause yeah maybe... whoever came up with that term probably was thinking the human in the lemon. That's actually quite...nice

- Well apples. It's actually a fertility symbol. If you cut it

- Yes. I mean apple is like a loaded fruit with all its biblical meanings

- I know

- Treason

- Yeah fertility

- Or awakening of sexual

- Interesting contradiction...no?

- The part about god and adam and eve... is that in the new testament? I actually don't know. Cause I don't know, is apple a common thing in the Middle East? I feel it's more common in the slightly northern places

- Yeah you are right. Actually... I don't know. My knowledge of the bible is less —

- Mine is also. I've only recently got — or I think, I started reading many things at the same time, so sometimes if a theological or biblical reference came up, I also — I'm more interested than I used to, but I still don't know much

- We can reuse this

- Yes. But yeah that's another let's maybe wikipedia what, Buckingham Palace?

- and movement -- ?

- remembering the guy yesterday

- (slurping noise)

- so good

- then apple, adam and eve, which chapter

- fertility or lust

- or both

- or both

- well at one time fertility and lust were probably linked very tightly, but then they came up with like contraception that's like a modern... yeah

- ()

- totally they are all like moral inventions

- yeah exactly. or moral inventions or accumulation

- uhmm (eats apple)

- okay so I guess we decided that... cause it's the ten and it's started. I feel kind of guilty but it's okay

(long silence as N checks her phone)

- it's very good

- crunchy

- I normally don't peel the apple, but I think it's nice to just have the apple. It tastes nice...no?

- yeah

- no bitter

- totally

- have you ever tried to eat a peeled plum... Or like take away the skin?

- mmm maybe if it's a super ripe one

- it's so interesting it's like a flavor you don't normally disassociate from the peel, it feels a bit bitter

- the peel has like all the tartness, the other, the flesh is actually just super sweet

- super sweet so nice

- right before I came here I bought a box of plums and somehow these are these yellow Italian ones and

- they are very sweet these ones

- so yeah the center hhhh sweetness and the peel is like everything else. So you can very easily tell, yeah, dramatic

- mmm so tasty

homecarrying

1. Pitching my tent

LOCATION: Friesland NL?

2. Sören

LOCATION: Southern Sweden

Saint Paul??????

who is remembering

Follow the protagonist to places where she takes photography with a 35mm.

What does she want to remember?

Things of beauty and intrigue:

- winding staircases near Kino

- butterflies

- what are the moments you associate beauty with?

Things with friends -- iconic human connection?

- elaborate dinners

- picnic, smiles

- beach, water, kite

Portrait?

- photo studio

Close-ups:

- looking

- framing

- focus? -- POV?

End scene:

She goes to the darkroom.

Screen goes dark, sound of loading film

Developing (all steps)

When the images emerge:

They are blank.

End scene alternative:

She goes to a vast space.

It's just the camera and her now.

Shots of her taking off the camera.

Shots of her opening the camera.

It's empty.

previously

Jujube/home#genesis