This weekend I directed and starred in my first short film. It was very exhausting and exciting. Rolling back and forth made me so dizzy I nearly puked up and my stomach hurt for the rest of the day. Stripping down to my underwear over & over when the sun was nearly set was freezing. Realized a lot of things and mistakes after the fact. But it’s ok. I want to do more video projects, so much more. The original idea was scrapped on site when I realized that acting is not easy when you don’t know how to do it. So instead we were able to come up with something even more meaningful informed by the highly personal work of Sophie Calle and Miranda July and Vito Acconci‘s theories of performativity. It’s actually a fragmented voyeuristic narrative that takes place on the York University campus. It was made to be a GPS film, and the different clips will be triggered when the viewer steps into the ‘hot zone.’
Here are some stills.
