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Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 02:09AM woah hey so CLASS moved over here to the wildness movie site...! the change feels kinda weird but also honest- because i realized i'm mostly writing about the movie at this point. less blurriness with life friends and group projects...
i'm not sure if my eyes can adjust to this BLACK/WHITE reversal thing - my first thought was: does this space close something down? something about integrating the questioning space with the 'end product' space of a movie website? it's more than just an new look, its a new FRAME literally. but i was starting to feel like i was faking something - because the truth is, i AM most invested in the what happens now that the movie is done. like i wonder is it POSSIBLE to keep it real inside this more commercialized setting? more interesting to me to try, rather than to keep pretending the worlds are separate...
for example, since the movie started coming out, one challenge has been the amount of AUTHORSHIP that's put on me as the director- especially for press and audience who want A single person to easily identify with.
THATS WHAT HAPPENS
for example they conflate the movie and the party as one creation, which is a huge problem. (something i anticipated, and trying different ways to undermine). also there is tension with some collaborators about credit. this movie was created in the languge of collaboration, but that can be hard to translate for people less familiar. i'm also encountering occasional crazy assumptions about my intentions (or lack of intentions) around immigration stuff. like people asking me point blank: are you afraid this movie will cause people to be deported? i don't even know where to begin, but also find it necessary to have a really solid answer - besides just WELL DID YOU SEE F*$#!ING MOVIE??? WTF TO DO YOU THINK??? my answer for now, which i'm working on, is: in Los Angeles today, immigration status is a fact of life. 1 in 10 people are undocumeted. 1 in 10. that's like the same as gay people on the planet or something. so trying to hide or sensationalize this reality makes no sense- it is one facet of people's complex human lives. i felt it was important to show life primarily - and everyone who participated did so willingly, and at the same level of risk that they have to live with every day. the fear is real. but we can only know this fear to be a fact, inasmuch as it is reality for each of us in our own lives.
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