This is a soundless story of the building of ‘Toledo Spirit’, the container ship, its sailing and eventual beaching. Insignificant men crawl on cranes and gantries to build it and other men, sans the equipment, scrape it after beaching.
The title Paranoid Park refers to an illegally built skate park under a bridge in Portland, Oregon. Sixteen-year-old Alex is enticed by the park’s anarchist reputation. One night, this utopian place where skaters get together is forever changed.
« With A Little Patience interroge avec habileté la notion de représentation. Cela tient tout d’abord à une mise en scène minutieusement orchestrée qui sert de manière maligne les intentions du réalisateur.
« Ce qui m’intéresse davantage c’est ce que le français actuel a perdu par rapport au français d’autrefois, à savoir certainement la clarté et l’articulation. J’aime que les gens articulent, et je ne pense pas que cela enlève la spontanéité.
“The American poet Muriel Rukeyser asked, ‘What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?’; her answer: ‘The world would split open.’ The tragic extremes of Fengming’s biography seem to demand such a cosmic response, or at least some physical manifestation or visual correlative ons
“So, in ’92-’93, I decided to start using the off cuts of some advertising campaigns to start filming Santiago. It’s a film that, at that time, in its origin, was made completely unprofessionally, in the sense that we didn’t have a ‘project’ or an ‘incentive’.
