Filmmaking duo Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew join the writer Chris Kraus for a Q&A on net art, gentrification, and their trilogy of shorts.
, they explore the eery, simultaneous solitude and connectedness of New York City in a hyper-online age. “T
DANIEL CHEW: I think one of the reasons why we came to showing the internet without showing the internet is that in a lot of narrative films, the implications of the internet were never true to how we actually felt like we experienced film. Sometimes it was protruding too much where it was, like, text bubbles or a shot of an interface, where it didn’t really feel like the experience that we were having.
DURAND: Internet art is also accessible, and that’s what drew us to film. It’s exploring race and sexuality through a medium that people can torrent and watch in their bedroom. DURAND: We learned her real age was younger than what we thought. I begged the guy who ran that club to let us in.CHEW: So we do have a very loose script, and we’ll do a few takes with the lines from the script. With non-actors, you really just have to let their personality fill the role. So we’ll just give them prompts after they get used to the pacing of what the scene would be, and we do maybe three takes with sides and then three takes with improv.
KRAUS: Yeah. The other thing I wanted to ask you about is that in all of your films, the main characters are Asian, and yet there’s none of the usual Asian American stereotypes. It’s not central to it. The people are just urban subjects who are also Asian. Was that something you were thinking about?
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