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http://www.camper.com/web/en/home.asp

it is fun just to play in the main page

I did it, but I cannot upload because it's more thant 50 MB.
I feel terrible, the worst work I've done in a long time, it is awful...
I don't like...but yes the cat is bouncing.

YES the cat bounces...

see you tomorrow...

I like the film. Cristina likes it. Some friends do. Some friends do not.

As I was watching the movie again I was thinking how could I cut it more? Because I feel it is a bit too long. At the same time if I cut, how to keep talking about stillness or duration? I also perceived I use a lot of zoom in and zoom out, and maybe the film could have another dynamic if I didn’t use that resource so much.  When I cut I wait until the zoom is done and it takes time…
Another aspect I would like to work on is the sound; I am not satisfied with it at all. But I do not know if music would resolve it.

As contradictory as it may seem I love this piece the way it is. 

I enjoyed illuminating the scene where she cuts her hair. It was my first experience with lighting and of course I didn’t have to put a light – we had enough luminosity outdoors–but I wanted to try, to experiment, to use the information we got during class. And I am happy with the outcome: it doesn’t have huge ugly shadows and I think the colors were intensified by it.

I also loved copying (the sadistic) “12 frame rule” from Lars von Trier film, it was fun and I found it beautiful. I keep wondering why nobody (esp. my friends) asked why I chose that… My answer would be: I do not know, I just loved copying it and I liked the result.

I think, for now, this film is complete.

I want to try to separate the tree moments as we discussed in class. Especially I would like to undo the “flashback session”. I really wanted to see it in three different monitors, but of course I am afraid to see if this film resists in an environment different from the one we have in class.

Here I am with a blank page in front of me not knowing how to express the good things I’ve experienced doing this project that, for now, it is called “The tree”.
First of all, apart from the film being a little boring and maybe sad (if you do not laugh at it) I had fun in the process of making it. And this is a novelty for me. I am always very worried about how things are going to come out and afraid of playing or letting strange things happen. That means, afraid of letting ideas out.

“The tree” is made of coincidences. The first and more determinant of them was my encounter with Cristina, who came to NY to spend just one week, the week #6…
I had told her: “come later, come when I will have time, in my spring break” but for many reasons she decided to come earlier… Now, I am grateful.

We met for lunch on that Saturday and I told her we were going to make a movie, or something, or anything. I told her I’ve seen Marina Abramovic’s “Balkan Baroque” and told her about the piece where she combs her hair incessantly saying “art must be beautiful, artist must be beautiful”. She told me about Ana Mendieta, whose work I’ve never seen.  These histories were mixed with histories of our lives “ how was I liking to live in NY? How’s life? How was she doing in Rio? Blah blah blah.” Some wine and some pasta mixed. I remembered a text my mom wrote and called her to ask if she could send it to me. She did. That night I had to make the storyboard so I began…well… drawing…I do not have any talent but I made some outlines of a woman with a very long hair seating still, standing still, laying still… the next day I asked Cristina what was her favorite spot in NY and the answer was “Broadway and Houston”.

After shooting –it took us two afternoons– I let the project rest (in fact, I was afraid of looking at it) before editing. I realize that in other projects this is the place where I stop and stuck. I think editing is difficult, I do not trust my choices and so on. But in this class something happens otherwise, I feel comfortable with the way the class is conducted (yes, the way Virgil conducts it).
We have done lots of projects since week#1 and I discovered a pleasure in taking photographs and in completing the assignments that I think is “liberating”.
I feel good about my work and about everyone else’s work.  I have to confess that I read Wabi Sabi during the photography assignment and that helped me a lot to understand the idea of process Virgil mentioned in the first day of class.

I am writing about the process only now, I wish I had written before…but anyway…
Now I have to write the post-mortem.

Just to mention other coincidences: the color of the wall and of the chair matching her clothes, the overcast weather in the garden as opposed to the sunny day in the park, other people dressing mostly dark colors in the street, the text matching (I have to translate so you can understand), an outdoor sign saying “their hair tell their story”, my conversation about cutting my hair with Carrie during the Saturday class…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axCOvXnvvhY&eurl=http://www.orkut.com/FavoriteVideos.aspx?uid=579622013929181021

Vox took too long to upload (part) of my video... so whoever wants to watch it and give me opinions on the sound
(what music? opera? voices? noise? a text? I'm lost!) can go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX2YiAXI0eY
 
Now I am editing the "rest" of it, which is boring, slow, nothing happens and how am I supposed to deal with stillness, with pause, in 2/3 minutes?  Should I make a cut every 12 frames?

I'd be glad to listen to any feedback from you guys and also from Virgil...

Marília