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“I write this song”
a project of el el
despacho
dates: August 2003 – December 2004
The lives and stories of six young people from six different cities
around the world, between the ages of 19 and 24, are interwoven
through Phil, a musician and elementary school teacher of 37, residing
in San Diego, who must compose the melody of the lives of each of
these young people.
A filmmaking team travels to Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Mexico City,
Lima Los Angeles and Jakarta, generating videographic material which
is sent to Phil in San Diego. Phil reacts to what he hears, sees,
to what he perceives and recognizes in each of the six stories.
Phil composes and sings six melodies. Interpreting, telling, composing,
asking. Re-interpreting, re-telling, re-composing and asking once
again.
Phil doesn’t travel. He remains in San Diego.
In each visit to the different cities, Phil sends a gift which the
filmmaking team must hand over to its intended recipient: the young
person in question.
Besides filming aspect of the daily lives of these young people,
the filmmaking team asks them a series of questions which have been
formulated by Phil; an additional tool through which Phil attempts
to know and understand.
Over the course of the year during which this experience will take
place, the filmmaking team will visit Phil on two separate occasions,
with the purpose of documenting aspects of his own daily life, as
well as of the process of the making of the six melodies.
In this website, you can see fragments of the videographic material
thus far generated around the six young people and Phil.
At the end of 2004, a video-documentary will be made, departing
from this and other material, to later be distributed throughout
the different cities where the project will have taken place.
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