After four months in New orleans all I haveto show for is is this one minute video made for the City One Minutes project.
Tony Cambell and Matt Vis read a first sketch of the script for a project that I have begun working on. The script is called “The Damned Dam”, it is set in the near future, in Bosnia. It is based on a true story of a spoof broadcast on Radio Lukavac in 2000. The radio show was about the dam on river Spreca breaking. At the time the show alarmed the locals of Lukavac and they even closed some schools and factories. In the script the damn breaks for real and the characters, Tarik and Merima are trying to warn the people by playing them the old radio broadcast.
The video is shot in New Orleans Lower Garden District, on the corner of Camp and Thalia streets, on what is left of an old movie theater that burned down some years ago. The lot has been for sale for some time. The debris of the building has long been cleaned up and the only indicator of that it was once a theater are the masonry steps of the former entrance that now resemble a mini stage with an auditorium on the street corner. The empty lot being a common sight of the New Orleans urban landscape. The storyline also relates to New Orleans - as it tells of a place that is under constant threat of a flood while the video gives a portrait of a quiet street corner in the utilized as a stage for a performative act - reminding of the site’s former function. Even though it was hard to jam the hole narrative into the short one minute format, I hope that one senses the storyline that tells of urgency in the face of a pending catastrophe.
Camera and Editing: Lala Rascic
Performers: Generic Art Solutions (Matt Vis, Tony Campbell)
Thank you: Daryn De Luco






