Nisha’s Blog - Archived Copy

Three hours and many many steps up the Guggenheim ramps all for what?
” the cremaster muscle releases and the testicles descend.”

Apparently, I am not the intended audience for the Cremaster Cycle.

I know I will be made fun of for going to a “Poetry Slam” in a year post 1993
BUT the Def Poetry Slam was worth it. Especially the poets from Youth Speaks in Oakland, CA. Just when I thought our country is going to illiterate hell - some 18 year old blows me away with her literary skill.
When Chinaka speaks, I listen.

Cara Buono turned me on to this:

lift away moments of self hate

Thanks Cara!

Okay - so we edited out way too much of the film. It’s weird how you can be cutting and then accidentally cut out the entire set up for a joke. Then you sit and wonder why the audience didn’t laugh because in your mind you already know the set up. How to keep perspective… now Jane and I have to go figure out what to put back in… I love editing. It is scary how you can make many totally different movies though. I always wonder if the final version was the right one or just the one we got to at the time…