Filmmaking team explores the vulnerability of a community under threat.
When Austin-based filmmakers Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan embarked on their latest project – documenting a season at a Florida nudist resort – they were aware that in order to make the film they wanted, they had to adopt the local dress code."There's no way you can show up with a camera and your clothes on and make a film," Lucas said."I remember looking at Patrick at one point during shooting and being like, 'Well, it's time to take our clothes off.
As Lucas explained,"There's two stereotypes: There's the helicopter style, where you come in and out and engage just enough, and then there's the fly-on-the-wall style, where you're there but you don't engage at all. We're neither. We wanted to fully experience the community and people off-camera, so we could be present in moments where there was some revelation."
“I remember looking at Patrick at one point during shooting and being like, ‘Well, it’s time to take our clothes off.’”This engagement is key to understanding the work of the filmmakers. Through two features and a half-dozen shorts, Lucas and Bresnan have created a body of work that depicts the outliers, the people on the margins of society who, as Lucas said,"don't feel like they belong or are not taken into account in our consciousness of who we are in our culture.
While the duo is preparing for their Tribeca premiere, they're also preparing, unfortunately, to relocate to North Carolina, as the Clarksville property they've lived on for a decade is about to be sold. It's an irony not lost on the filmmakers, and the realization that Austin has become unrecognizable to them, and a place where they are unable to sustain their lifestyle, is a common one.
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