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Road Trip and Experimental Documentary
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The Trip |
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After buying a new car
and doing a little planning, I'll set off across the continent, hopefully
visiting many of you along the way (or out of the way). During the trip, I
plan to film an emotionally complex experimental documentary blending
real-life interviews and re-creations. In addition to interviewing the
people already involved with the doc's subject matter, I'd also like to
interview many others who have strong opinions or have had similar experiences.
I'll need people of all ages and from all walks of life, both in huge cities and
rural villages. Right now the only place I'm definitely shooting is
the Empire State Building, but I really want diversity in this film so I
might go anywhere from Alaska to the Florida Keys. Maybe if I'm in your
town you'll join the project! |
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Themes |
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I'm keeping the details of the doc under wraps for now,
but the themes are more important than the exact subject anyway. I don't
pretend to have any answers or truly understand these concepts, but I think
they're worth exploring. Some themes are:
- the impossibility of truly knowing the ones you love
- the unstoppable force of time
- the meaning of family
- idealistic love across decades
- the difficulties of aging
- the unreliability of memories
- selfishness as a necessity
- accepting and transcending life's imperfection
- sacrifice
Plus some more uplifting stuff, too. I promise.
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More soon on where I'll be going...
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