liv: In process
DIRECTORS’ STATEMENT
“We were struck by the idea of making a project for Liv one night at her apartment. A handful of girlfriends had come over to do a clothing swap. It’s the kind of night I think of when I think of Liv and it looked the way you’d imagine: a dream collaged out of a Sophia Coppola movie - all pastels and lace, dancing on mountains of clothes, loud music, shared confessions, teeth stained with red wine. It’s the kind of night we'll look back on and feel is inseparable from the experience of our early 20’s - that time when your girlfriends are your most reliable compasses, the mirrors you hold up to yourself to find out who you are and who you’d like to be. We call these years the “formative” ones - that period when we’re more potential than actual. Our identities aren’t fully baked - they’re in process, currently being figured and stitched from a heap of attempts and ideas and desires strewn across the floor.
This project is a love letter to the disaster of girlhood, to the glorious mess, and to the ongoing creative process of figuring out who we want to be in this world.”
-Julia Kupiec & Nina Gofur
Read the Director’s Library writeup here.
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Directed by: Julia Kupiec and Nina Gofur
Producer: Jonas Berry
EPs: Owen Lazur and Jeremy Truong
Production Coordinator: Rhea Li
1st AD: Ingie Enan
Cinematographer: Ace Buckley
1st AC: Sinclair Neff
2nd AC: Andrew Lin
Steadicam: Max Garstak
Gaffer: Matt Foundoulis
Key Grip: Alex Kary
Sound Mix: Flora White
Editor: Julia Kupiec
Sound Design: Bobb Barito
Color: Jared Rosenthal
CLIENT
ByLiv Handmade