FIRST FILM SKETCHES UNDER WAY
I, Haruko Nishimura and Mandy Greer and Ian Lucero started our film sketches in Portland last weekend at Ian and Kamala’s lovely place. It was a VERY PERFECT PLACE to start out miniature scale sketches with our loose story board of what we wanted to try out, experiment, and a perfect place to gather and start to bounce our ideas off of each other, desires for the film and share each other’s resources. The meaty part of our dance film is going to be finalized and filmed, edited in this fall of september. Ian and Kamala has a lovely garden full of earthly PHOTOGENIC things like moist mudd, bright green cute clover patches, tall grasses and dwarfy trees, a bright orange cottage, HAPPY FARMER FENCE and lots of birds, squirrels,sometimes white sky, and warm 70’s sunlight. LOTS of earthworms.We had a monsoon-like violent thunder rain after our long day’s meeting and the next day we were able to start shooting for the images.I got into white makeup and laid in the wet cold grass.Mandy and I got our hands entangled in her crochet madness.Ian worked hard working meticuluosly with his camera, taking shots over and over until he got what he needed. I also got to GORGE AND CHOMP on DIRT-MARINATED CABBAGES for few takesunder their crawl space in the basement and enjoyed it very much.What I enjoyed most was a lot of our shootings were us going by our intuitions and strong visions… It is a good little start full of promises…