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The film Keep it in the Streets deals with people on the streets of Vancouver that I made with a group of colleagues. The idea was to let the city tell us what to make. It's street cinema, and comes out of street photography.
As I say, it was developed with Colleagues in Vancouver and a guy [name] wrote a script.
What significant choices did you make?
Finding out the process and timeline between the footages.
what came before? using similar thing withoout people in it what will follow? feeling of being totally satisfied. creative emptyness. brought him here.
It started with a manifesto and ideas around the urban environment. It is based on personal inspirations using non professional actors. I wanted to find something between fiction and documentary .
how?
first two days they just interviewed people and the third day they kinda came up with the script. they didn't have a straight plan. following where people are taking you. they came up with a list of questions to make the interviews easier. it was edited within the shooting.
What were the important choices?
Having a low budget made the path for the film. [please expand]
Did you create specific methods when conducting the interviews?
Over time we got better at it. Getting into that point took a lot of experience.
What came before this?
I had a similar experience before this [in Paris?], again working with friends. In this case we started to write the script instead of interacting with people. In the Vancouver film there is more interaction.
What followed?
where could it be shown?
It is currently on line but it can be shown in a cinema, on a larger scale to a larger audience online
What did you shoot with?
Digital cameras like SLRs, GH4, a Sony camera and lots of photos shot on film; different looking shots that say something about the process; even if unconscious it still looks appropriate to the project (rough collage)
How specific to Vancouver is it?
It explores the city, we hit every neighbourhood; people referred to it; but it is also relevant to people who don't know the city.
Does Vancouver have a personality?
Open relaxed; but after moving back from Paris, however, it appeared bland, (but this may be an oversimplification) because, nature wise, it is unbeatable.
In the section we looked at, there is wish fulfilment of the interviewees (someone talks about projection as a form of graffiti, which is enacted in the film); where the input from the people involved are active in the construction of the film. This approach to collaboration interests me, where the subject has an influence on the outcome.
How can this be applied to current or future projects?''
I would like to keep the openness and willingness to engagement. I also want to shake up Q&A format; now working with format for someone to work in their own space and allow them to 'wax poetically' about an aspect of their lives that interests both of us, (feelings may be expressed through the movement of their hands, the environment they inhabit; I am interested in in abstracting the process. I would like to exercise a stronger form of authorship. In this film we were timid (with each other) at points.
One of the reasons I am here is to develop methods in which I can collaborate but still have autonomy. Looking forward I would like to use writing as a tool, think through writing, using it at as a tool to map something out. Developing a practice which allows me to figure things out. Create a space to influence what I want to make. So that writing is something more than an illustration or description of my work I can bounce the filmmaking off the writing from place to place,