In The Street Today - Paris

Shots of Paris taken on a cheap DV and with the shooting technique inspired by the camera style of Stephen Dwoskin... The tourist attractions of Paris I find a real drag but there are lots of really interesting places in the city... I like the 13th district a lot but avoided it here as maybe too obvious a choice... On this I'm using a lot of the 10th district which for me has its equivalent in London with places like Dalston, plus a few other Paris locations, but also Puteaux which in my mind matches up with Richmond on the end of the district line at the outer limits of London... with Puteaux you're just the other side of Bois de Boulogne (rather than being by Richmond park) and also looking back at La Defense, which I guess is more like looking at Canary Wharf from Greenwich Park (but then Greenwich and Richmond had the royal palaces and map onto each other as east and west points marking the ends of London along the Thames)..... As a peripheral point on the city Puteaux seemed like a better choice than Clichy which Henry Miller made famous by living there, and was immortalised to much better effect in Jens Jorgen Thorsen's film of Miller's book "Quiet Days In Clichy". But in true psychogeographical style, I understand Paris almost completely in terms of the place I know best, London....

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Paris
• Stephen Dwoskin
• Puteaux
• psychogreography
• Stewart Home
• street life
• street
• streets
• metro
• lights
• noise

[PAKITV]

wots da soundtrax?

[stewarthome]

it's the sound of the escalator shown at the end, just recorded live as I filmed and then looped on the soundtrack.... Great sound so I had to use it! One of the sections of the cover is now missing, unless it has been replaced since I was last there. Shame, coz the experience ain't the same when the light effect is broken.... But at least I caught it as it was.....

[mabsurda]

nice video

[stewarthome]

thanx.

[estebanx]

Pharmacy at 2:38. Hallelu!

[stewarthome]

it's a groove sensation!

[stewarthome]

Oh it was a case of "we've got levitation" with that old 13th Floor Elevators tune just bouncing around my head!

[ledatape]

montparnasse is The Maximum! Did ya end up at the pompidooo museum or did ya just levitate after all that upside down action? "The girls in Paris are special *and* unique" (lee hazlewood).

[stewarthome]

And there I was thinking it made Paris look like Paris!

[stewarthome]

Toot toot! ;-)