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"Meditations" is one internal chronicle of the trials of overcoming creative block. The film moves between abstraction, symbolism, and live action -- using dramatic framing and alternative techniques to weave its tale of conflict between memory and fantasy in the emotional movement toward the creative act. The film sequence parallels a process of internal visualization. As the imagery of the film solidifies, the stage is set for two characters: a father and daughter who exist in different places, but who dwell on each other through a common photographic record/legacy. The woman tries to find an escape from the photos in an ideal location, near the water's edge. |
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The complication arises as the man is set to discard his photos in his daughter's newfound space. As he digs a hole to bury them, the ground erupts in fountain of flame and smoke, which consumes him, dissolves his image, and gathers into a cyclone which eventually wipes away the film emulsion. The woman reemerges from the "clear" to find a white canvas in front of her to which she re-applies a new kind of image. |
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| Credits: MEDITATIONS (June 1997) 16mm 23:00 Cast: Vanessa O'Neill, Richard Lawrence, Tessa Day, Tamar Schapiro Camera: R. Todd Vanessa O'Neill Locations: Fred Day Grip/ Lighting: Gardener Estes Mary Todd Tessa Day Sound: Lucy Vail R. Todd Processed at Cine Labs |
