Her subjects come from anger and discomfort. As she got older they became more layered and less angry.
Her work entitled "Train" is of three young men of which you can only see their mouths between the headrest and seat on a train. The men are talking about women that they have had sex with. The things that the men were saying was very vulgar and crude. Rudelius wants us to wonder whether they are really on a train, are they really saying that? She also said that the mouths become and "erotic object".
"Highest Point" Rudelius wanted the women that she interviewed to explain how they reached and orgasm. They would keep their clothes on but explain with words and movements. She referred to this work as slapstick. She wanted this to be somewhat funny.
"Tagged" was about young Morrocans in Holland. These young men always seemed to be dressed really well. They wore designer clothes. In the film they talk about how the clothes make them feel and how they feel about what others are saying about them. In Holland the Dutch dress badly, therefore having these young Morrocans dress really well makes them outsiders. This film was brought on by Rudelius being mugged in Holland by a couple of Morrocans. She wants to bring up the questions of did they steal the clothes? Did they rob someone to get the clothes?
"Your Blood is as Red as Mine" is a film about prejudices and how they are not true. Rudelius interviewed several black men in Holland and asked them questions like: Why are black men attracted to lighter skinned women? The response she got was completely different with the black men she interviewed in Holland than she would have gotten from a black man in America.
"Economic Primacy" was a film about capitalism and money. Here she interviewed several wealthy men. She said that she came across a checklist for psychopaths and said all the things on the list were the same things that you needed to be successful. She said that trying to get the interviews became a sport. The rich don't care at all what others think about them, they are oblivious.
Rudelius said that in most of the films she was directing some of the people on what to say. This is where I can see the manipulation of truths that she speaks about. However, she has directs some of the people on what she thinks about the subjects. This is a manipulation of her truth not truths.
In one of the interviews she was talking to what I assume was a black preacher. He asked her what she wanted from her work after she dies. And she said that she wanted to people to take it places. This confused me because in the end she said that the reason there are only loops of her films on her website was because people were downloading them and she wanted to be in control of how her films were showed. How is she going to be in control when she dies?
The other questions that came to mind after the lecture was why should we care about how she views the truth? Not everyone sees the subjects that she films the same way she does. Why not film the subjects based on someone else's truth?
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