Sunday, August 02, 2009
The challenge of a video memoir
Only a couple weeks until the grad school reunion in Eugene and I'm far from getting a handle on what I want to do with a video project. I'll overshoot. Saturday, with few activities planned, I hope to roam campus with my camera and brood a lot and hope an approach reveals itself. I know it has to be a kind of coming of age story but also a complex story about memory and hallucination because this is the time of my life when I thought I was deliriously happy with a woman who wasn't, who soon thereafter would "come out" as a lesbian. So how much of what I thought were shared experiences were, in fact, solitary and therefore hallucinated? This is the central dramatic question, it seems to me, but I'm not sure how to frame it in a video. I'm not even sure if it's a documentary or a work of fiction in which I cast and use actors. What I do know is that I have to shoot as much as possible while I'm down there.
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