热门文档论坛：“通过后门的天堂”以非常规的方式探索非常规友谊
Hot Docs Forum: ‘Heaven Through the Back Door’ Explores an Unconventional Friendship in Unconventional Ways
艺术家和电影制片人安娜·惠誉（Anna Fitch）（“幸存者”）和银行家怀特（“塞拉利昂的难民全明星”）正在准备一个多学科的纪录片项目，他们本周在热门文档论坛上推销，将其描述为持久的证明友谊的力量以及我们在生活中和死后彼此学到的东西。“通过后门的天堂”通过惠誉和尤兰达·雪植的非常规友谊探索死亡的奥秘 - 亲切地称为“ yo” - 两种亲切的精神，出生于49年除外。这部电影由惠迪·弗里什（Heidi Fleisher）（“火星醒来”）和萨拉·多萨（Sara Dosa）（“爱之火”）为Mirabel Pictures制作。这部电影是对Shea的深切个人和情感的致敬，他出生于Shea， 1924年，在瑞士的奇亚索（Chiasso），在加利福尼亚定居之前纵横交错。惠誉（FitchG讲故事的人。”他们的友谊持续了将近15年，直到Shea于2013年去世。她说：“我试图准备失去她，但确实没有办法准备失去您所爱的人。”尽管导演在Shea生命的最后两年中已经开始一起拍摄时间，但“我没有发现镜头真的给我带来了很多慰藉，即使我认为会。”她开始了一个非正统的悲伤过程，朋友在写信给已故朋友的信时会帮助创建木偶的木偶。很快，她和怀特（White）拥有精美的艺术背景 - 建造了Shea's House的三分之一版本，他们充满了她一生中的遗物。不久之后，他们创造了一个由她精心制作，有趣，经常深刻的故事启发的微型世界。“我们真的只是把自己投入到了这种创造性的仪式中，这使我感到情绪化，使我感到不可感受。和回顾过去，这确实是一种直觉，富有创造力的仪式，帮助我度过了悲伤。”“这个过程在黑暗中盲目地感觉到了我的道路，直到某事开始有意义。”怀特补充说，作品“与我以前从事过的任何其他事物都有不同的感觉。”“天堂穿过后门”并将观察镜头与对乳木果的艺术解释并列，并使用错综复杂的布景，动物演员，木偶和家庭档案馆并列照片和艺术品。这些故事跨越了八十年和三大大洲，邀请观众进入她叛逆的过去的详细记忆，并将观点提供给育儿，女权主义，宗教和灵性。最终项目将包括一部长篇纪录片和沉浸式画廊表演，其特色是Shea's House的复制品已经在加利福尼亚州索萨利托市岬角艺术中心展出Oving经验为她的爱的劳动揭示了新的层面。她说：“这确实使我们有机会看到该项目对物理空间中的人的影响，并创造了一个围绕悲伤和衰老的对话的地方 - 这并不容易训练。” “人们真的想和我们谈谈，他们想互相谈论。”“每个人都有关于他们迷路的祖父，一个失去的母亲，一个姐姐失去的故事。他们能够将自己的悲伤，关怀和爱心带入这种非常具体的经历。 “我认为这对我来说非常强大的事情之一就是您如何创建这个真正具有凝聚力的世界，与您见过的任何事物不同，但人们可以以某种方式建立联系。”在论坛上，电影制片人是寻找合作伙伴以关闭融资。 “这确实在弗莱什说：“有条件人们爱上了我们的爱，并且存在着这种偶然的性质，又有类似的志趣相投。”“对我来说，这项工作只是对哟的令人难以置信的庆祝活动，但也是远离惯例的生活。我认为它拥有许多自我接受，内省和屈服于生与死的奥秘的教训。Hot Docs Canadian国际纪录片节于4月28日至5月8日举行。
Artists and filmmakers Anna Fitch (“Survivors”) and Banker White (“Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars”) are preparing a multidisciplinary documentary project that they’re pitching this week at the Hot Docs Forum, describing it as a testament to the enduring power of friendship and what we learn from each other in life and after death.
“Heaven Through the Back Door” explores the mystery of death through the unconventional friendship of Fitch and Yolanda Shea – affectionately dubbed “Yo” – two kindred spirits born 49 years apart. Directed by Fitch and White, the film is produced by Heidi Fleisher (“Wake Up on Mars”) and Sara Dosa (“Fire of Love”) for Mirabel Pictures.
The film is a deeply personal and emotional tribute to Shea, who was born in Chiasso, Switzerland in 1924 and crisscrossed the globe before settling in California. Fitch described her as “many things to many people: a great-grandmother, career weed dealer, intellectual, psychic, hostess, tyrant, a captivating storyteller.” Their friendship spanned nearly 15 years until Shea’s death in 2013.
It was a loss that Fitch struggled to overcome. “I had tried to prepare to lose her, but there’s really no way to prepare to lose someone that you love,” she said. Though the director had begun filming their time together throughout the final two years of Shea’s life, “I didn’t find that the footage really brought me much solace, even though I thought it would.”
She embarked on an unorthodox grieving process, enlisting a friend’s help to create a puppet of Shea while writing letters to her late friend. Soon she and White – who has a fine arts background – constructed a one-third scale version of Shea’s house which they filled with relics from her life. Before long, they had created a world in miniature inspired by her elaborate, funny, often profound stories.
“We really just threw ourselves into that creative ritual, which became an outlet to feel emotions I hadn’t been able to feel otherwise. And looking back, it really was an intuitive, creative ritual that helped me move through grief,” Fitch said. “This process was a bit of blindly feeling my way through the dark until something started to make sense.” White added that the production “felt different than anything else that I worked on before.”
“Heaven Through the Back Door” juxtaposes observational footage with artistic interpretations of Shea’s stories, using intricately built sets, animal actors, puppetry, and an archive of family photos and artwork. Spanning eight decades and three continents, those tales invite the audience into detailed memories of her rebellious past and offer perspectives into parenting, feminism, religion, and spirituality.
The final project will include a feature-length documentary film and an immersive gallery show that features the replica of Shea’s house, which has already been displayed at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, Ca.
Fitch described that exhibition as a moving experience that revealed new layers to her labor of love. “It really gave us a chance to see the effect that the project had on people in a physical space, and it created a place for conversations around grief and aging – things that are not easy topics to broach,” she said. “People really wanted to talk to us about it, they wanted to talk to each other about it.”
“Everyone had stories about a grandfather that they lost, a mother who they lost, a sister who they lost. They were able to bring their own sense of grief and care and love to this very specific experience,” added Dosa, who previously collaborated with the filmmakers on the Peabody- and Emmy-nominated documentary “Survivors.” “I think that’s been one of the things that’s been very powerful for me to see is just how you can create this really cohesive world, unlike anything you’ve ever seen, yet somehow people can relate.”
During the Forum, the filmmakers are searching for partners to close financing. “It’s really on the condition that people fall in love with it as much as we have, and that there’s this serendipitous nature to it and a similar like-mindedness,” said Fleisher. “For me, this work is just this incredibly moving celebration of Yo, but also of a life well-lived far from conventions. I think it holds so many lessons of self-acceptance, introspection, and giving into the mystery of both life and death.”
Forum pitches can be streamed on the Hot Docs website. The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival runs April 28 – May 8.
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