So all this weekend I've been volunteering at the NH film festival in Portsmouth NH, and it was absolutely amazing. Portsmouth is this awesome old town on the seacoast of NH and is very old money and built out of brick and amazing old churches and just a beautiful place to have a film festival. The film festival is billed as a walking festival because the venues are located all around the town in diverse places such as a old warehouse, the basement of a really nice bbq restaurant, and really old ornate movie theatre called the music hall, and an actual stage theatre.
On Thursday I was setting up the venues and then worked 2 shifts, so the only movie I was able to see on thursday was Shooting Beauty which was a documentary about a woman photographer in boston who around 1997 i believe was shooting a spread on a group of people who had terrible disabilities. As she was developing her first batch of pictures she realized that the pictures were coming out really scary and dark. And what she realized is that her worldview of these people was influencing how she was shooting them. So she decided to let them tell the world how to view them. so over the next 6 years she raised money and bought cameras for these disabled people to take pictures of how they view the world and basically started a miniature photo school. every week she would come in and give a new photography assignment. What is absolutely amazing though is that the pictures that these severely handicapped people were taking were absolutely gorgeous and incredible. (one of the disabled photographers was only able to take pictures using his tongue). The documentary follows the group of disabled photographers as they get their work into art exhibits in boston and surrounding regions. A definite must see as it was very powerful.
I'll post more later, as its getting kinda late here!
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