Me You and Everyone We Know
I missed the boat on the film “Me You and Everyone We Know” (it was released in 2005). However last night after watching it for the first time I’m glad that I did. It unlocked a nostalgic archive of a way I felt about the world in 2005. The movie is a bunch of instances that fit together and somehow create movement, a theme. Each instance funny, silent, strange, and inconsequential until it all ends in a tidy package. A package that shows that humans regardless of age, sex and race universally need each other with the utmost intimacy. They need to be understood and allowed to disappoint.
How does this all relate to the above photos? I’m not sure really. I took these last week in Regent Park while teaching a class to 12 year olds about photography and it’s ability to unite through a universal story language. Other than that the photos abstractly remind me of a scene in the film when Miles Thompson’s character shows his younger brother a birds eye view of ”me you and everyone we know” made with punctuation marks from his computer. Later he says “I’d live up there if I could, if there was no gravity.” We crave distance and intimacy at the same time (or as Dar and Emily would put it - attention and anonymity). It’s a delicate balance.
