COLLECTION NAME:
Don Yannacito Collection
Record
Collection Name:
Don Yannacito Collection
Title:
Diane Kitchen, First Person Cinema
Name:
Kitchen, Diane
Name Role Term Text:
speaker
Resource Type:
Audio
Genre:
presentations (communicative events)
Place Created:
Boulder (Colo.)
Date Created:
2002-03-18
Language Term:
English
Extent:
1 audiocassette (37 min., 35 sec.)
Form:
audiocassettes
Abstract:
As an event in the First Person Cinema series at the University of Colorado Boulder, filmmaker Diane Kitchen introduces and discusses three of her films: Roots, Thorns (1992), possibly Notch, and Wot the Ancient Sod (2001). From audience questions, Kitchen discusses her relationship to the Ashaninka people in Peru, her process as an ethnographic and experimental filmmaker, spirituality and nature, and her editing process. Notes on tape container include "Roots Thorns, Notch, Wot The Ancient Sod"
Note:
00:00:00 Diane Kitchen introduces her film Roots, Thorns (1992) and discusses her documentary work with and depictions of Ashaninka people in Peru, their reactions to her film and photography, and the political situation at the time related to the Sendero Luminoso. 00:04:06 Audio cuts out. 00:04:30 Audio resumes. Kitchen discusses her artistic intention making Roots, Thorns, in contrast to conventional ethnographic film. 00:06:09 Audio cuts to after film has screened. 00:07:06 Queston from the audience about the equipment used in the film and Kitchen’s sound editing. 00:08:08 Question from the audience about depiction of Ashaninka people in Roots, Thorns compared to Kitchen’s earlier film about them. Kitchen discusses their political situation, their reaction to filmmaking, and her relationship with the Ashaninka community. 00:11:33 Question from audience about how Kitchen gained trust of Ashaninka community. 00:12:35 Audio cuts to Kitchen’s introduction to a winter film (possibly Notch) and autumn film (Wot the Ancient Sod, 2001). 00:13:09 Audio cuts out. 00:13:36 Audio resumes after film has screened. Kitchen talks about the act of using a camera. 00:14:12 Extended comment from audience, possibly Phil Solomon, difficult to discern. Kitchen compares painting and filmmaking. 00:16:00 Kitchen mentions Don Yannacito’s description of visitors to the film department at CU Boulder in the 1960s and 70s. She describes her personality as apparent in her film. 00:17:00 Audience comment related to Stan Brakhage, difficult to discern. 00:17:37 Question from audience, difficult to discern. Kitchen talks about her interest in the physical and metaphysical, discussing her perception of “indigenous personality” and ephemerality. She mentions the title of Wot the Ancient Sod. 00:21:20 Question from audience, difficult to discern. Kitchen discusses ideas of “spirit” in “tribal” cultures. 00:23:09 Question from audience, difficult to discern. Kitchen discusses the qualities of film compared to the image of video. 00:25:02 Kitchen talks about her process and the effects of making rayographs from small natural objects, projected on a large scale, compared to astronomical images. 00:26:23 Question from the audience, possibly Don Yannacito, difficult to discern. Kitchen mentions the equipment she took into Peru and discusses safety from “terrorists” in the area while working with the Ashaninka community. 00:29:39 Comments from audiences. Kitchen discusses the structure and title of her film Roots, Thorns. 00:30:09 Audio cuts. Extended comment from audience, difficult to discern. 00:31:20 Comment from audience related to the themes of spirits, life, and death in Kitchen’s films. Kitchen discusses her intention in the winter or autumn films, figures of the deer and the forest, and types of perception. 00:33:42 Question on Kitchen’s process in editing Wot the Ancient Sod. Kitchen discusses her process photographing the film and developing its structure, often according to color. 00:35:40 Kitchen relates her editing to the process of poet Joy Harjo. 00:46:48:00 Audience question on editing timeline. 00:37:26 Kitchen thank the audience. 00:37:35 End of recording.
Note Type:
Timecode description
Subject Topic:
Experimental films
Subject Topic:
Ethnographic films
Subject Topic:
Indigenous peoples
Subject Topic:
Peru
Subject Topic:
Ashaninca Indians
Subject Name:
Harjo, Joy
Identifier:
narv_yannacitoDon_212_2002-03-18_dianeKitchen_a.mp3
Physical Location:
University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections
Shelf Locator:
COU: 5045 | Tape 212
Date Captured:
2024
Internet Media Type:
audio/mp3
Digital Origin:
born digital
Access Condition:
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