Taylor Good, Lisa Hurwitz, & Rhys Stevenson

Our piece sets out to examine the collective anxieties of our group members on the issue of homelessness and the discomfort it evokes in each of us, respectively. What is our relationship to the problem? What unique feelings could a meditation unearth? Rhys explores his visceral reaction when walking past a homeless person, Lisa makes connections between experiences with her first girlfriend and the impact they had on her views regarding homelessness specifically in LGBT populations, and Taylor examines her guilt over the pure fear of seeing a homeless person. Rhys concluded that he doesn’t know enough about a person to judge so he should just help, Lisa concluded that she should strive to look at homeless populations more equally, and Taylor settled upon getting over her fear of seeing someone homeless.

Primarily poetic, our piece plays with 3 timelines and both their similarities and dissimilarities. We attempt to recreate the mundane everyday experiences where our paths cross with homelessness. Symbolically, the subsequent result is that our paths as individual group members cross as well. Though written separately we quickly realize commonalities in our different experiences and portrayals of them.

Our adaptation, a literal one, explores a mode mostly untouched by group members in the first video project. Additionally the group will push itself to explore weaknesses from the first assignment. Lisa is exploring the long take, Taylor the short take, and Rhys on more fluid narrative. By playing with these techniques we hope to wield tension, hold viewer interest, and remain true to the stories we convey as filmmakers.