Shoot day 2: Oh Jimmy Jimmy - Trash and Vaudeville
I woke feeling like death warmed up. A quick trip to the deli in search of vitamins reminded me of my accent. I forgot to ask for vight-ay-mins. While I was there I got all the strong drugs I could get over the counter. "Must not be ill on shoot", repeat after me…
Overlooking the hotel is a billboard for IFC and Cactus 3 film Darkon. It’s an exciting and terrifying reminder of where the film could end up. Christine has told me that that is where Goth Cruise will go and it’s something I can’t think about it before I’ve made the film. No pressure!
IFC is next door to our hotel so I met up with Christine and had a quick tour meeting different people from the organisation including Evan Shapiro. I left laden with hats, t-shirts and DVDs to take home. I have to ask Christine for a copy of trapped in the closet by R Kelly, which IFC put out. It you haven’t seen it, it is FANTASTIC.
Drugged up to the eyes we made it over to Trash and Vaudeville in the East Village. Originally I’d wanted to go to mall Goth mecca Hot Topic to meet and do vox pops with Goths new to the scene but apparently it’s too close to Halloween to film there. The Goths I have met have been a bit snooty about Hot Topic, a mall chain catering to mainly teen Goths. I guess it doesn’t have an underground cachet but I bet if you live in a small town it’s a welcome oasis in black.
Jimmy Webb, the buyer and host from Trash and Vaudeville is a 50 year old veteran of the NY scene who was a frenetic ball of energy and made Voltaire look yogic calm.
He gave a spirited interview about his role in bringing dreams alive and a guided tour of outfits on offer in the store from naughty snow white, gothic princess and all manner of eye popping corsetry. I introduced the idea of corp. Goth to him, as many people I have met during this project aren’t able to be Goth 24/7 due to work restrictions. He couldn’t comprehend this and got incredibly heated about the importance of never hiding part of yourself; myself and the crew filming this heated exchange was all captured Doug from IFC who had come to do a news report about the film. I am quickly having to shrug my fear of being on the other side of the camera as I did an interview nestled in amongst the platforms and pony skin winkle pickers.
After a fruitful few hours we left laden with trash and vaudeville t shirts off in the car to seek out some interesting landscapes of NYC that slowly reveal a hidden gothic side. We have been pointing the camera up to capture the gothic architecture and gargoyles. They’re things that are everywhere but you might not necessarily see them. Zooming in isolates them and like Whitby, provides a splendid Gothic backdrop to the proceedings. Thanks to Sheil for a good suggestion that will hopefully give us footage that shows the city without looking like a travel programme.
Overlooking the hotel is a billboard for IFC and Cactus 3 film Darkon. It’s an exciting and terrifying reminder of where the film could end up. Christine has told me that that is where Goth Cruise will go and it’s something I can’t think about it before I’ve made the film. No pressure!
IFC is next door to our hotel so I met up with Christine and had a quick tour meeting different people from the organisation including Evan Shapiro. I left laden with hats, t-shirts and DVDs to take home. I have to ask Christine for a copy of trapped in the closet by R Kelly, which IFC put out. It you haven’t seen it, it is FANTASTIC.
Drugged up to the eyes we made it over to Trash and Vaudeville in the East Village. Originally I’d wanted to go to mall Goth mecca Hot Topic to meet and do vox pops with Goths new to the scene but apparently it’s too close to Halloween to film there. The Goths I have met have been a bit snooty about Hot Topic, a mall chain catering to mainly teen Goths. I guess it doesn’t have an underground cachet but I bet if you live in a small town it’s a welcome oasis in black.
Jimmy Webb, the buyer and host from Trash and Vaudeville is a 50 year old veteran of the NY scene who was a frenetic ball of energy and made Voltaire look yogic calm.
He gave a spirited interview about his role in bringing dreams alive and a guided tour of outfits on offer in the store from naughty snow white, gothic princess and all manner of eye popping corsetry. I introduced the idea of corp. Goth to him, as many people I have met during this project aren’t able to be Goth 24/7 due to work restrictions. He couldn’t comprehend this and got incredibly heated about the importance of never hiding part of yourself; myself and the crew filming this heated exchange was all captured Doug from IFC who had come to do a news report about the film. I am quickly having to shrug my fear of being on the other side of the camera as I did an interview nestled in amongst the platforms and pony skin winkle pickers.
After a fruitful few hours we left laden with trash and vaudeville t shirts off in the car to seek out some interesting landscapes of NYC that slowly reveal a hidden gothic side. We have been pointing the camera up to capture the gothic architecture and gargoyles. They’re things that are everywhere but you might not necessarily see them. Zooming in isolates them and like Whitby, provides a splendid Gothic backdrop to the proceedings. Thanks to Sheil for a good suggestion that will hopefully give us footage that shows the city without looking like a travel programme.
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