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June 29, 2005
Greetings from Asbury Park: remembering Jersey shores
Filmmaker Christina Eliopoulos is putting her money where her home is, documenting the epic shifts in her Asbury, NJ, hometown: "Eliopoulos has tracked down images of Asbury Park in newsreels from the 20s, several works by Thomas Edison, and a number of early commercial films including The Suburbanite, a popular film about the perils of moving into suburbia that was filmed in 1911. She is using 16-mm film for the project rather than video, even though it costs her $400 just to open a can of film.“Film is the best medium I know that can combine historic, scholarly and personal perspective... We’re talking about a town that had a huge reputation and was mythic in a way... Film does that justice, and I don’t think video does. Film is an imagistic medium, video is not. Video to me feels like a voyeuristic kind of tool. Film feels like it lives beyond the frame. … When you shoot something in film, it’s almost like you can see through it; you sort of feel you are looking into it. Video has a kind of flatness. It’s purely an artistic choice."
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