Extra Credit:the Art of the Real at Lincoln Center

On Tuesday, April 15^th I went to see a non-fiction
film, Suitcase
of Love and Shame, by Jane Gillooly at the Art of the Real at Lincoln Center. It was a great experience for me as a
media maker. I was able to learn how creativity in Media contributes on constructing
great work, as the one I saw.

  One
of the no common approaches used by the author is that, at the very beginning
of her journey of the production of Suitcase
of Love and Shame, the artiste found the story on eBay. She
won the bid for $100 on the suit case in which 60hours of raw material was on. In
it there was a recorded love interaction, a love affair between Tom and
Jeannie.

Then the film maker decided not to tell the story of
the two lovers, but instead to tell the stories of a man and a woman who are
having a love affair, half century ago, in the 60’s .She works on the film
without respecting the chronologies of the story as it was presented in the suit
case. Instead she went by cherry picking
in order to see which team works together for what she had in mind. She was
able to reach her goal which is to produce a collection of history that talk
about a personal history over a period of time, here it was from 1962 to 1966.

The technologies
used are background sounds, music, different shot based on the image, many long
and medium close ups. Imageries were used by adding them or just using the one
on the raw material. Sometimes in the film, the music and sound are cut. She
played with it so that the audience can be aware of how image and sound
relationship can be developing as a structure.

All of it adds on
the filmmaker idea of how she imagined the scenario. She also omits most of the
material, on purpose because she said most of it was a repetition, very
similar: lot of breaking up and getting back together. She was inventing the
film. She cut the 60h into less than one hour.