This sound project really opened my eyes to the vision of sound. Instead of thinking about sound as something that is produced by a visible object, we had to think of sound as the visible object, even though there is nothing to see. Since my brain already works in very obscure ways, I found this project to be quite fun. Although I have a lot of experience with music and instruments, I have never made a film with only sound. We wanted our piece to portray a feeling, so we used sounds that we felt brought out certain emotions in people. The feelings of uneasiness and grotesqueness seemed most fitting for our term "A nastiness when she drank".
Lynne Sach has a very unique perspective on things. She has the ability to look at something normal and come up with a totally different use or meaning for it. In the interview, one thing I found very interesting was her point on drawing from others opinions. When Sach was interviewing the people living in the shared beds, she was expecting to get some pretty generic answers, but instead she got very personal and powerful stories. In my opinion this is one of the most important facets of filmmaking. Actually delving into the world you are attempting to create with no predetermined conceptions allows you to generate an entirely new perspective.
Lynne Sach's films seem to be deeply rooted in patterns. She seems to want to create a relationship that is entirely visual with no story or underlying meaning. For instance, in Same Stream Twice, she films her daughter running in a circle around her. The first video is of her as a young child and the second is her as an early teen. The film shows how although her daughter obviously looked different, there were still things that were very similar to her as a child. This use of pattern and repetition could also be her way of directing the audiences eyes to a specific visual element.
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