These pics were taken on location of the filming of SILVERING PATH by Kamala Dolphin Kingsley:

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The SLUG PRINCESS film shoot (a collaboration between Haruko Nishimura, Mandy Greer and Ian Lucero) is finally finished! Now for the weeks of grueling editing work. Here is a slide show of pics taken on location from the shoot taken by Kamala Dolphin Kingsley.

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This morning’s rehearsal is focused on the creation of our “Mother Mothra” scene. Haruko, Leo and I are looking at excting ways to use video. So, inspired by Gene Kelly (see below), we want to create a choreography between Haruko and “Haruko”. We are just getting our feet wet. This scene is an argument between the girl character and her evil “MOTHER MOTHRA” - a shape shifting creature who says

“Im the mother you erased,

Im your father long lost,

Im your twin sister from you dream,

Im anything you want me to be.”

HERE IS A LITTLE CUT FROM A SKETCH RECORDING (its for the new album, but this is not the version that will appear on the album - just a little snippet played on guitar and pantrhastic harp zither with Haruko singing)

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We are thinking about ways that they can interact. If anyone knows any really cool video tricks that can be accomplished with this as a live performance, wed love to hear about it!

These photos were taken during the 2 day film test shoot for the “SLUG PRINCESS” film. Haruko and Ian and Mandy pouring over notebooks, inspiration images, brainstorming. Some of the shots were filmed in a vegetable garden, and others in a dank dark basement. There was a magnificent thunderstorm on the first night with unbelievable showers!

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…

Portland

Mandy, Ian and Haruko are meeting in the Ian/Kamala Portland house for their first big summit on the film they are collaborating on to be shot in September. Portland is sunny. Perfect. They sit under Japanese Maple tree and iron out their ideas while humming birds feed above - Mandy’s boys are digging holes in the garden for kamala. Basically a perfect Portland day. This work will go on for two days, the goal to get things rolling on the project. Mandy’s son Hazel has been tricked into wearing a tassely gold-lamet dress to do his digging in. The film chronicles the life of a “Slug Princess”. There will be much footage taken in all of our gardens. Mandy brought samples of her crochet slug slime.