Artist Statement:
For this project Jacob and I decided to
talk to some friends we had who were doing humanitarian work. We ended up going
with my friend Kyla’s story. She’s a dance education major and she’s currently
doing an internship in India with a couple different organizations. I had her
send me pictures and videos, as well as a description of her experience that we
could put into the documentary.
It was really interesting to get her
overview of the experience as well as get a glimpse of what she’s been able to
learn through her experiences. It was also cool for me, because I know her
pretty well to see the way this experience has changed her and how her
perspective has shifted as a person, and as a teacher.
I wish we would have been able to get
more footage of her interacting with the kids and more of her just talking
about her experiences. I kind of want to do a re-make when she comes home in
May and actually sit down and interview her about the experience, and talk
about everything that she’s gained from it.
The biggest difficulty we had with this
project was getting enough material together to make an informative documentary.
(It’s especially difficult when your subject is halfway across the world). If I
were to do it over again, I would definitely start earlier and work on
gathering the media ahead of time, and possibly try to get an interview,
whether over skype or chat or something.
One thing I really gained from doing
this project was a realization of just how powerful and influential art can be
in a society. Something that really stuck out to me in this week’s reading was “Artists expand social imagination, helping us envision the
transformations we hope to bring about, stimulating our thoughts and feelings
toward the new attitudes and ideas that will drive recovery.” I definitely agree with that, and I
think that if more artists realized the power they had to inform and drive social
change, the world would be in a very different place.
~Brontë
Campbell
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