with Virginia Verran

  • we were invited to not talk about our work but to listen to what others said first
  • it was interesting and helpful to hear how people, with no prompt, how they read the piece
  • the words that came up – memory, nostalgic, uncanny, adult/child distortion
  • Is it a child or an adult?
  • Layers on layers of film like a story
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • Mysterious, magical
  • beguiling
  • I was reassured and so happy to feel that I had conveyed to the viewer my intentions (more than happy!!)
  • I asked for some constructive criticism from the group and Virginia – She said that she thought that all the edits worked really well, the film didn’t feel too long, I suggested that the only point at which the film lingered was the face projected onto the house which felt too long – this was agreed
  • Artists to look at – Pierre Hoody & Stephen Chambers
  • Tarkovsky – ‘The Sacrifice’ – especially slow mo of the milk jug