The Universe Experiencing Itself
Created with Caroline Sinders, Oscar Klingspor and Vanessa Tristao Joho. Music by Mammalian. We used a 5D, the H4N Zoom Recorder, Premiere. I film some of the shots using a steady cam.
We wanted to make an experimental film that would explore extremes: normal/abnormal, alone/not alone. Most of us moved to New York City especially to study at ITP. For the first weeks here, we all felt that even if we were always surrounded by people anywhere and anytime, we also felt loneliness. In a City like New York, you quickly feel like you have no past and no future. As soon as you move here, you feel like you belong to the City. There is so much diversity, you could become or be whoever you wanted to be.
There is diversity in the city but it still feel “normal”. Everybody walking, working, in the streets and the subway. Crowds. Crowds of people. Of people alone. What is it that they have in mind? Was is it that trouble them?
This short film is an attempt to explore the weird site everybody carries but never show. Like in this great novel I have been reading: “Remainder” by Tom McCarthy. We all carry an abnormal self. What if we would start sharing it? What would happen?
We wanted to make an experimental film that would explore extremes: normal/abnormal, alone/not alone. Most of us moved to New York City especially to study at ITP. For the first weeks here, we all felt that even if we were always surrounded by people anywhere and anytime, we also felt loneliness. In a City like New York, you quickly feel like you have no past and no future. As soon as you move here, you feel like you belong to the City. There is so much diversity, you could become or be whoever you wanted to be.
There is diversity in the city but it still feel “normal”. Everybody walking, working, in the streets and the subway. Crowds. Crowds of people. Of people alone. What is it that they have in mind? Was is it that trouble them?
This short film is an attempt to explore the weird site everybody carries but never show. Like in this great novel I have been reading: “Remainder” by Tom McCarthy. We all carry an abnormal self. What if we would start sharing it? What would happen?
Havermayer Street, Williamsburg
When I first arrived in NYC to study at ITP, I stayed for a week on Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It is a very lively hood where freshly arrived hipsters mix with the Puerto rican and dominican communities living there for 3 or 4 decades already. The neighborhood has changed a lot in the last 10 years. On the corner of South 3rd and Havemeyer, you can sit at a trendy-but-low-key cafe and watch the puerto rican elders play cards outside in the sun. I wondered how the puerto ricans felt about the gentrification of the area.
My colleague Caroline and I went for a walk in the hood and interviewed a recent immigrant from California and two Puertoricans. They explain how they feel about the changes the area is going through.
You can hear it here.
My colleague Caroline and I went for a walk in the hood and interviewed a recent immigrant from California and two Puertoricans. They explain how they feel about the changes the area is going through.
You can hear it here.
