WomenCinemakers, Special Edition

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see the details that make a place special to match the ideas the interviewees were talking about. I try to train my eye to see the beauty wherever I am. I wish the camera could even better show how beautiful some of the places I have been. Another interesting work that we would like to introduce to our readers is entitled and can be viewed at : what has impressed us of your insightful inquiry into is the way it brings our relationship with our environment to a new level of significance, unveiling the ubiquitous bond between the individual and outside reality. While introducing us to the initial idea of this film, would you tell us how do you consider the relationship between perceptual reality and our inner landscape? I made Temporal in the first year I had moved to NYC. I grew up in California and wasn’t use to seeing the four seasons and decided to shoot during each season to capture the essence each one has and to use a dancer per season to amplify the emotions felt during Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer. NYC is a very powerful energetic place that more than any place I have ever been, can throw your energy all over the place. In NYC you have to focus so much on keeping yourself happy and positive because when you walk outside the door the city begins like a video game and doesn’t stop until you decide to jump off the merry- go-round. And part of the NYC energy requires one to go with its flow. The most amazing serendipidous encounters can happen at any moment in NYC and people keep living there because there often are these times where the outter and inner realities align for you. I’m very strongly affected by my surroundings. I think in being in touch with your inner

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