EYEMAZING: Review about PEOPLE * LOVE * PHOTOS
November 30th, 2009
EYEMAZING: Leading Photo Magazine
Official Film Website: PEOPLE * LOVE * PHOTOS (Trailer, Gallery and more …)
Website from EYEMAZING
Excerpt from the article at EYEMAZING:
Photographer and director Christian E. Klinger has made an intimate portrait of several young American photographers. Tanyth Berkeley photographs people in the streets of New York whom she calls “Survivors”; Ashley MacLean and Traci Matlock (a.k.a. Rose and Olive) explore sexuality; and Elinor Carucci photographs herself and her family. In making this film, the filmmaker sought and experienced a touching sense of truth, which he shares with us in this interview.
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Photograph by Elinor Carucci.
Sarah Baxter: Being a photographer, what led you to make films on photographers?
Christian Klinger: As a photographer, I’ve worked for agencies, magazines and Internet platforms such as Cicero, Merian and HQ. I specialised in people-oriented editorials.
Filmmaking was always a dream. But in the past, you always needed a lot of people to make a film. In 2006, the advancement in digital filmmaking technology made everything much simpler. And this opened new doors, representing a new opportunity to get into the film world, because things got so easy from a technical standpoint. Software applications like Final Cut are a revolution. Now all you need is the heart and the mind to make a good film. Technical skills are more in the background.
With this technological revolution, I jumped into film. And I love it, because I can say something, which I never could say in photographs. Photography belongs very much to death. A picture jumps out of time. In film you always work with time, and this is one of the huge advantages in film and it is a lot healthier I think!
Photography by Ashley MacLean and Traci Matlock.
SB: Was this film an assignment or a personal project?
CK: This film is a personal project. Much like the previous film I directed on photographer Jock ….. (Read more on the website from EYEMAZING or buy the Magazine)
Thank you all, that this film get real.
Best Regards
Christian Klinger
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