LA-born filmmaker/photographer @dielamb turns his lens on the young people in his adopted city of Berlin, where he’s been based for the past five years... "This photo was a taken in-between-scenes, so we probably called cut and had five minutes while we were changing lenses, changing cards or whatever, and this was a kind of down moment in-between scenes, but still very much a scene. This was actually the graveyard where Marlene Dietrich and Helmut Newton are buried next to each other. It’s in a neighbourhood called Schöneberg, an old neighbourhood in the west of Berlin. She used to hang out there in the 20s and still has an important presence in the gay and arts culture of the city. I had never published photos before I made this film. Maybe because I felt like I didn’t study photography or I thought I wasn’t allowed to take photos... I don’t know, maybe I held it as something that was too precious to consider myself a part of. It started as an economic necessity for me – I couldn’t make a short films about everything and everyone. But maybe I would meet someone that was an interesting person who I’m not going to write an entire script about, but I would like to find a way at least to document the experience with them. Photography was a way to engage with people and then also to see if they were dynamic enough to make a film with, and if people weren’t right for that, at least, we could make a great series of photos together, and the ones who really had a lot to say and felt like they lived beyond a photo, would become part of my film world. So yea, it really started as an auditioning or developmental tool. For this film, I only shot four rolls (of photography), so I shot very little and we picked the best ten (shots for publication alongside the film). There’s one picture of three people in bed that must’ve been published over 50 times – it’s crazy, but then it loses meaning to you. It becomes that image, a press photo. It becomes the image that’s just on that Dropbox link that you send to people interviewing you, as a press thing. You lose the essence of that image because it becomes public domain." Interview by @ashleighkane.

dazedさん(@dazed)が投稿した動画 - 2016/03/02 09:08:32