Thinking About Possible Ideas

When I first came to thinking of ideas for the experimental film project. My first thoughts came back to one of my favourite amateur films Dirty Girls [2000] by Michael Lucid.

Lucid's documentary has to be oddly enough one of my inspirations for the majority of my personal work. For 2 years, I have had a personal project of documenting my life in video form. In order to create a film of my generation in a decade's time, over the years this idea has continuously developed and I want to incorporate some of my personal archives into this experimental film. Dirty Girls is a short 16-minute long documentary which acts as a time capsule on teenage rebellion and youth culture. Lucid initially shot the film in 1996 while still a senior at a Los Angeles High School, before finally editing the footage in 2000. While the film at the time of its release was shown at local film festivals, it only began to receive its cult status in the early 2010s.

The documentary follows a group of young girls described by their peers as social outcasts for their 'dirty' appearances. The group influenced by the Riot Grrrl and grunge movements of the early to mid-90s attempt to distribute their zine and spread their ethos of feminism and individualism.

https://vimeo.com/85014382