Questions and response
1.) Do you feel disturbed or offended by what you discover from your work?
2.) How do you choose your subjects based on your themes for your videos, and do you let your subjects know what the theme is before filming them in these situations?
Julika Rudelius
Guest lecture Julika Rudelius is a documentary filmmaker and photographer. I found Rudelius’s work to be very compelling and motivating. Rudelius’s technique for getting her subjects to confess (tell all) to the video camera was intriguing. Rudelius would get her subjects to wear an earpiece as a result making it easier to direct them and ask questions as they communicate with the camera. Then again, I was slightly disappointed when discovering that Rudelius directs her models body language. What attracts me most to Rudelius and her work is how she plans and manipulates her subjects so delicately prior to capturing the essence of her creation. Rudelius comes up with an idea and will plan it for months making sure she has the right people, background, and dialogue set up for each project.
Rudelius seemed to answer both of my questions during her lecture. I value how Rudelius finds her models for each specific topic that she works on. Rudelius noted that she would study areas (parties, events, political, etc) and people based on the particular project she was working on at the time. For instance Rudelius found well to do Hampton’s women in her piece “Forever” which consisted of women, poolside sharing their ideas on happiness. Rudelius went to the Hampton’s and would hang outside of parties and events until she could meet potential subjects for her films. Rudelius more or less answered my other question; Rudelius stated in the beginning of her lecture, “ I get triggered by anger and discomfort.” I value how Rudelius will create her projects relating to things that occur in her personal life and things that interest her in general.
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