{"id":16778,"date":"2024-04-30T15:16:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T19:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=16778"},"modified":"2024-04-30T15:17:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T19:17:01","slug":"episode-587-dw-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-587-dw-young","title":{"rendered":"Episode 587 – DW Young"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 587:
\nD.W. Young<\/a><\/p>\n

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“From his time at the Village Voice, there were tremendous stories, there were tremendous adventures, but there was tremendous Work, above all.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>For more than 40 years, the breathtaking pictures of photographer James Hamilton<\/a> have chronicled New York City and America (and a couple of war zones), and now the amazing new documentary UNCROPPED<\/a> (Greenwich Entertainment) by director D.W. Young<\/a> has launched a rediscovery of James Hamilton’s work, life & times. D.W. rejoins the show to talk about how James’ career at the NY Herald, Village Voice<\/em>, and NY Observer<\/em> opened the door to a a bigger story about NYC, arts\/culture and media, how NYC has changed and how the culture adapts, and how young viewers react upon learning about the city’s vibrant newspaper & alt-weekly scene that preceded the internet. We get into the difference between empathy & formality in photography, how after D.W.’s previous movie (The Booksellers<\/a>) he really<\/em> didn’t want to make another NYC film but wound up making the MOST<\/em>, James’ shift from film to digital (and why some of UNCROPPED<\/em> is shot on film), why sit-down interviews in documentaries get a bad rap but why they can be so valuable, and how Wes Anderson ended up being interviewed in the movie in a largely empty room. Plus we discuss D.W.’s first post-lockdown movie-theater viewings, the relief of making a short narrative film (Dancing on the Silk Razor<\/a>) in the midst of making Uncropped, what he learned from making The Booksellers<\/em> (and what he had to unlearn), why it’s a travesty that the Village Voice<\/em> archives aren’t digitized, and a lot more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go see UNCROPPED<\/a>!<\/p>\n

(And go listen to our 2020 conversation<\/a>!)<\/em><\/p>\n

“I don’t think of films as story so much as experience. Story may be part of the experience.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n