In September I attended a toy camera workshop with Midi Onodera put on by my department of Communication Studies at Concordia. We had an afternoon to shoot and edit. I chose the Barbie Cam to shoot my short film because how strange is it to shoot holding a Barbie in your hand that has a camera in her chest. The feminist discussion is not lost on me, but that’s not the point right now. The Loyola campus of Concordia reminds me a bit of York: it’s far away from the centre in the suburbs & no one likes going there. Having just arrived, I wanted to get to know the campus and make friends with it. I decided to shoot the garden, as it was just finished sharing its bounty for the season. I emailed j that afternoon asking: “hi / can i use one of your songs / it’s a love letter to the garden / wanna send me something calm and slow?” & what you hear is what he sent me & I love how it works so perfectly.
Magdalena O!
ALWAYS LOOKING FOR THE RAVE / doctor-in-trainers / feminist researcher of electronic-a- / VJ / (moving) image capturer / cyclist / purring machine MTL
I can’t quite explain why but I’ve always had a fear of plastic toy limbs. This gave me the creeps like I haven’t felt in a while, definitely in a good way.