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| Indigo Milazzo's 10th birthday by Tyler Cohen |
INDIGO LADY is a performance art movie about a Nebraska ranching empire heiress who murders her husband, butchers him the way her father taught her to butcher a hog, and turns him into ham. The movie is loosely based on various news items, folklore, and random stories about rural life that the director heard while living in Nebraska the first half of her life. The story, characters, and subtext are lifted from a solo performance play that the director wrote in the 1990s and that was produced by The Lorraine Hansberry Theater in San Francisco USA (1993).
The dialogue and action, rather than being scripted, are completely improvised by the characters. The reward of the process is poignantly painful, realistic people telling their own story, while being shot in the style of raw, minimally teched documentary video. With the exception of greenscreening, the footage is edited on the timeline solely for the sake of clarity. The movie heavily employs montage and each scene is a "painting."
There is no music and only the most necessary sound editing. The viewer's auditory experience of the movie is as raw and close to the edge as the visual experience.
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