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When I did my first short film, Despair,
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I came up with that idea because so many people
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at my exhibition of the series The Big Valley,
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a lot of people at the show were coming up to me asking me
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what had happened just before I took the picture,
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or what had happened to the character
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in the photo just after.
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I though it would be fun to kind of
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play around with that idea.
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Which La Petite Mort feels like a longer narrative
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it feels like it's a lot more dynamic.
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And, just has more layers in the storyline.
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With moving images, it was kind of a surprise to even
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enter into that medium because I just always
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thought of myself as a photographer.
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When I did Despair, approaching it as a still image
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that moved a little bit, I was kind of surprised
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at the reaction that I got from the audience.
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It was a really effective way for me to communicate
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in the same style that I was always communicating
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(Upside Down by Charlie Wadhams)
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I was looking for somebody for La Petite Mort
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with really expressive eyes and really soft features
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that looked european.
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That was the idea that I had in mind when I was
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writing that story.
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And then, as we were just starting to think about who
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we should cast, Judith actually sent me an email,
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and I looked at her images and her films,
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and she was perfect.
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It was almost like we wrote the script for her.
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When I'm starting a series I don't really have a theme.
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Really what my theme is, is whatever I'm
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going through in my life, and what I've experienced
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in that period of time.
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I've always been interested in the lower
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spectrum of emotions, because those are the hardest to
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confront and the most painful to deal with.
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(Upside Down by Charlie Wadhams)
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With Polyester, The Big Valley, and Week-End,
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the way that I talk about taking a step back was really
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to figure out a lighter way to approach these
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really heavy subjects.
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But with this new series I figured out how to do it
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in a way that, hopefully, people will want to really
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engage and interact with it.
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(Upside Down by Charlie Wadhams)
