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Q&A with James Owens

Title: The Photos and Me
Date:
 Wednesday, April 16
Time: 8 pm
Place: Tapps Art Center

 

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1. What is your connection to the South?
Lived all of my pre-college life in Pageland, SC, and currently living in Columbia, SC for school.
2. Where did you get your inspiration for this work?
I was taking a documentary history class, and thinking about how filmmaker is part of the work being recorded. I was struggling for a film topic in my other class, and then I remembered this one time when I came home my mother had taken all of our pictures off the wall.  I started the film to be about that, and it became something else in the process.
3. How did you start making films?
I always took pictures, but I never really thought about making movies until I took “The Moving Image” as an undergraduate at USC.
 4. Did anything interesting or funny happen on set during the shooting?
A relative I had never met pulled up as we were about to leave the house, and I was pretty sure he might shoot me for trespassing.  I wish I had recorded it.  He was friendly though.
5. What do you look forward to the most during Indie Grits?
I look forward to the films mostly.  And Indie Bits!
6. Why should someone see your film?
It intervenes with that search for history and self in an interesting way.
13 March 2014
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