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"My family
never made super 8 films, even though I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s.
We recorded sounds instead. My Mother was a singer. This was in Alabama
and Tennessee.
I saw the movie Deerhunter with Meryl Streep when I was in high school and
decided I wanted to be a film actress.
The first footage I ever shot was for a film I had written called Found
a Peanut.
Someone I knew had some 16mm film he didn’t want, and someone else
I knew had a bolex. We shot two hours worth. The only footage I liked was
a scene of me getting shot and falling over on the beach. I never finished
the film. Until ten years later when I edited it with Fil Ruting.
I met Fil at CalArts and after we got out of school, I started taking him
things I had shot and he would help me make sense of it. I would never have
finished any film if I hadn’t met Fil.
Patricia Stone shot Tumbleweed for me on our way out to the desert on a
high 8 video camera my Dad got for me. The Sea Beneath Which She Sleeps
was shot at the Biltmore Hotel with Tessa Chasteen, again on high 8. It
was shot to be part of an installation.
I have started focusing on very small moments. Those are the things that
can send you over the moon. Her hair blowing or the way he looks over his
shoulder to make sure you are following him. And at the same time I want
to lock myself in my room and watch all the Fassbinder films. I did not
become a film actress, so I try to make my life as cinematic as possible."
Terri Phillips
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