WRITINGANDRESEARCH-CLAUDIO

SESSION 1 - WHAT, WHY, HOW

SESSION 2 - INTERVIEWS

RAW TEXT (944 words)

Spell set set set can you hear me yeah OK great So what are you making so actually I presented it yesterday so I'm ready but I'm at the moment I'm starting to work on this a project which I actually had in my mind for quite a long time it's it's very vague at the moment but the starting point of it is like my sort of obsession with this small remote island in the Indian Ocean which is called N Sentinel island and which is like inhabited by most isolated tribe in the world and I find I I discovered it by chance actually a few years ago and I've been instantly fascinated by the possibility of the existence of such a place and such like bubble of like mystery and unknown'cause we live in a like in a world whose like main tendency is to to review and to make everything explicit and to get to know things and the way things are like work and exist deeper and deeper and always like and it's a way to like to impose control over what is surrounds us so it's like it's there's a relation between like knowledge and power and I'm very fascinated by yeah as I said the fact that in this world there is still still exists a place in which which has been like is resisting like this tendency so this is the starting point and like my film is not going to be like a documentary about the asylum but about the implications of this this island so it's like it's like a sort of a microscopic case study then I would like to expand to to talk about yeah wider issues and another thing that's very important to me and it's like relevant also to Hawaii like general practice is the fact that of course we don't have we have very few images of this island and of the people living there so again there's a relation between like knowledge and images which I end representation which I find very interesting it's probably one of the main topics that I will address in this film and yeah so kind of lost Miami it's alright yeah yes I'm working on this yeah I'm starting to work on it OK why are you making it yeah I'm making it because yeah basically because it's it's a circle session that I have and because I from the very beginning I felt like there's a lot of questions and relevant topics at stake in this like yeah this place and this yeah in this subject this topic so I I feel like there's OK OK so I feel there are a lot of things to be said and to be like research above yes I would yeah I feel there's potential and I feel the need to to focus on that OK how does it relate to other things you've done OK yeah I I think it's there's quite a few relations with the previous film that I recently made which is a film for Dubai it's it's related to it in a sort of by contrast I'd say because the film about by it's I mean they're all both of them are films like about plays a place you know way and and people living in those places um both of them are made using found images both moving or like still images but at the same time they're very like they say they are like because the Dubai film is mainly about the overproduction of images the overall exposure of like over like self exposure of people and people's lives and experiences in like first person while the film about the island is works on the complete opposite mean or something like the absence and the possibility of images and so the invisibility not on the self exposure so yeah and that's why I feel they somehow being so different they somehow are on the same research correction yeah OK great how is it different to other things you've done I mean I don't really know because I've just like I'm just starting it right now but I would like it to be different in the approach that I want to have in this film because like for example the Dubai film was very I'd say cold and like super like analytical and you know we reach it well I would like this new work to be more open and in a way more like intuitive I would like to work on it in a more intuitive way rather than like setting like straight like rules to which to stick yeah so that's that that might be might be one main differences but still I mean I don't know always comes in OK what are the most significant choices have you made recently I think that one of the most significant choice choices that I've made recently is that like I'm thinking about not even showing this argument like to just like circle circumnavigated without actually showing it's the images on the island we don't actually talking about it but just yeah using it as a method for or as a simple rather than focusing on it which is quite a significant shift from my life original intentions about this project which was wanted to be more focused on the island and I would like to really like use it as a as a starting point but then just also give me the freedom to move farther away from me yeah great I really like that idea done

EDITED VERSION 1 (683 words)

So, actually I presented my current work yesterday (in Barendt’s class, ed.) so you already know something about it. But yes, at the moment I'm starting to work on a project which I actually had in my mind for quite a long time. It's still very vague at the moment but the starting point of it is my sort of obsession with this small, remote island in the Indian Ocean which is called North Sentinel Island and which is inhabited by the so-called “most isolated tribe in the world”. I discovered it by chance, actually, a few years ago and I was instantly fascinated by the possibility of the existence of such a place, such a bubble of mystery and unknown. Because we live in a world whose main tendency is to make everything explicit, to get to know things and the way they work and exist deeper and deeper. And it's a way to impose control over what surrounds us. There's a relation between knowledge and power, and I'm very fascinated by - as I said - the fact that in this world there still exists a place which has been resisting this tendency. So this (the island, ed.) is the starting point and my film is not going to be like a documentary about this island, but about the implications of it. It's a sort of microscopic case study that I would like to expand to talk about wider issues. Another thing that's very important to me and it's like relevant also to my general practice is the fact that of course we have very few images of this island and of the people living there, so again there's a relation between knowledge and images, and representation, which I find very interesting and it's probably one of the main topics that I will address in this film I'm making this film because it’s an obsession that I have and because from the very beginning I felt like there's a lot of questions and relevant topics at stake in this place, in this subject. I feel there are a lot of things to be said and to be researched, I feel there's potential and I feel the need to to focus on that. I think there are quite a few relations with the previous film that I recently made, which is a film about Dubai. It relates to it by contrast, I'd say. I mean, they're both films about a place, and people living in those places. And both of them are made using found images - moving or still images. But at the same time they're opposite, because the Dubai film is mainly about the overproduction of images, the overexposure - self-exposure - of people, and people's lives and experiences, in first-person, while this new film about the island works on the complete opposite conditions, the absence and the impossibility of images, the invisibility. So yes, that's why I feel that in being so different they are somehow on the same research direction. I'm just starting it right now but I would like my approach to this film to be different from one that i had in the Dubai film. That one was very, I'd say, cold and super analytical, while I would like this new work to be more open and in a way more intuitive. I would like to work on it in a more intuitive way rather than setting myself straight rules to which to stick. So that might be might be one main difference I think that one of the most significant choices that I've made recently is that I'm currently thinking about not even showing the island in the film, to just circumnavigate it without actually showing its image, without actually talking about it, but just using it as a metaphor, as a symbol. This is quite a significant shift from my original intentions about this project, which wanted to be more focused on the island. Now I would like to really use it as a starting point but then also give myself the freedom to move further away from it.