S. Forest Swartout and J. Brent Large visited me in my small apartment in Nob Hill after the Fort Mason show. They had invited me to do a project in their Little Tree gallery (3412 22nd St, SF) during the Summer. This past week for the project I have been posting call for Asian American female on craigslist. Following text is what I wrote to reply to responses from the call. The casting will take place July 31 and shooting date is Aug 6th in the gallery. Let me know if you or your friend will be interested in being in the video. After the shoot, video will be available for viewing from the gallery window untill Aug 19th.
(Also I am looking for a TV monitor and two small speakers for the two weeks to be used in the gallery. If anyone have something I can borrow I will be really appreciated.)
About the project: “Show Some Color (Part 1)” project is a conversational video of three Asian American females talking about who are their ideal boy friends in America. The video will be produced and shown in Little Tree Gallery and other future art venues.
Casting Date: July 31, Tuesday. (please let me know if this day does not work for you)
During the casting, you will describe who you are and who is your ideal boyfriend. Remember this can be based on your real life or has nothing to do with it. You can tell us your true story, make up an interesting one, or an imaginary version of yourself and your boyfriend. The interview will be recorded.
Please come to the casting with the clothes you will like to dress for final taping. (Be special! be sexy!)
3-4 participants will be selected for the final shoot.
Shooting Date: August 6, Tuesday. (1-5PM)
Based on the casting interview, I will organize a scene of conversation of you and two other females. Three of you will be sitting together and have girl-talk. You will be telling your story that you told in the casting day, listen and discuss with other girls. There is no script for you to remember and you will need to improvise.
After the shoot, the project will be shown in the gallery. Final participants will have a copy of DVD and $80 compensation for your time. If I don’t get to work with you on this project I will keep your contact for my future projects. Potentially the project will continue as series and I will need more participants.
Location: Little Tree Gallery, 3412 22nd St. @ Guerrero Street, San Francisco
I rented one of Lars Von Tiers 2005 film “Manderlay” yesterday. The film formally continues from his 2003 film Dogville, accomplished the whole film on a minimum stage like setting with symbolic lines or gesture and sound to give context for the story. After seeing Dogvillge of course this strategy is no surprise, and I started to worry the ideal female character in the film was to repeat her story in Dogvillge. But using the same structure Manderlay is a evern sharper criticism on the American notion of democracy. Racial differences and the problematic history of black slavery can not be erased by a simply idealism of liberation. Many issues that presents by “Manderlay” perhaps no one will like to touch in America. For example, stereotyping people is unacceptable in America. Because we all believe in “freedom” society everyone are free to be different and should never be judged by certain perception. But is that really an ideal for different races to coexist or it is still only an white ideal?
Main character Grace is an white female, who has the passion to establish a “freedom” community in a black town which had carried on slavery for 70 years after slavery was abolished. Grace feels she had the power and responsibility to help this group of people because “white people made them”. In the end Grace’s effort and education did not create a autonomous and democratic community as she had initiated. Ironically she had found out the “law book” of their previous slave owner was created by one of the senior slave to ensure slavery system was substainable. In the end the town even used what Grace had taught them about democratic decision making and voted Grace should be hold by force to stay in town as their master.
According SiChun News Net, Panda mum Hua Mei just gave birth to two panda twins. Hua Mei was the first panda borned abroad and came back to China. She was born in America, so practically she is Amercia Born Chinese (ABC). Therefore her name has both characthers that means China and America. And these are her childrens borned in China. What a pinky fragile creature!
Last week of June me and many others had shoot Last Minute music video, one of Kelda’s DivaTV mixtape track. We spent two days on production in three main locations: studio, parking garage and south beach for day time shoot.
Believe it or not, I actually made storyboard for this shoot. Most of my projects in the past are 99% improvisation from director, team to the people in front of the camera. Making a story board this time is to better work with my director of photography Ryota Mori, who is a perfectionest. I was also open to work it out on different methods and the goal of this project is to make a good looking music video! I think I am getting better at giving people direction now.
Thank you for everyone on the credit list. Thank you for all the hard work!
Keldamuzik ft. Lingo Starr & Brooks
Produced by Rhymetite Ent
Album: Diva TV Mixtape Vol. 1
Label: Golddigga/Rhymetite
Director: Deer Fang
Director of Photography: Ryota Mori
Lighting: Adam Barczak, Luis Garcia
Assistants: Zhu Jianhui, David Elinoff
Production: FABRICATORS
