Project: Postcards, memory and collecting
I keep thinking about a conversation I overheard in PA last year with Jon and Carrie, on a rainy, grey weekend getaway where we went to a headspinning number of antique stores/ junk shops. The conversation was between a couple of guys who primarily sold postcards/old photos. They were sorting through thousands of postcards, getting ready to post the most collectible on ebay, where they do a thriving business (single card could go for $32, one said). I easedropped as I browsed, and it turns out that there is a huge market for vintage postcards — people collect postcards with images of hometowns, of their summer camps, of their favorite getaway, of the mountains, of India, of naked ladies. An amazing tangle of emotions, memory, desire and our crazy human urge to collect, to order the choas of living through organizing a collection. All the topics I’m interested in writing about: memory, collecting, photography in modern life, paper.
My mother and sister are documentary filmmakers and I’ve always hoped we would collaborate someday. Maybe this is the project?
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April 14th, 2007 11:12
Maybe we should do a narrative with documentary elements. take the postcard and then do a short narrative film that expores the life of the writer. Craig could do the script.