Showing posts with label Indigo Lady A Performance Art Movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indigo Lady A Performance Art Movie. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Indigo Lady: Synopsis

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.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Indigo's Baby Dress

the white dress is an icon with so much power. 
this scene and two other scenes in which the white dress
serves as a backdrop to the scene, and which occur
at different plot points along the story arc and
the development of Indigo Milazzo's inner conflict,
will be added to the new Storyboard soon.