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1 to 100 in 150 seconds [Procrastinate on This]
I found this Dutch video hauntingly beautiful and would love to see an American remake. I also loved the commentary by the filmmaker “Filmersblog:”
In October 2011 I started documenting people in the city of Amsterdam, approaching them in the street and asking them to say their age in front of the camera. My aim was to ‘collect’ a group of 100 people, from age 0 to 100. At first my collection grew fast but slowed down when it got down to the very young and very old. The young because of sensivity around filming or photographing children and the very old because they don’t get out of the house much. I found my very old ‘models’ in care homes and it was a privilege to document these -often vulnerable- people for this project. I had particular problems finding a 99 year-old. (Apparently 100 year-olds enjoy notoriety, but a 99 year-old is a rare species…) And when I finally did find one, she refused to state her age. She simply denied being 99 years old! But finally, some 4 months after I recorded my first ‘age’, I was able to capture the ‘missing link’ and conclude this project. Enjoy.
(By the way: together these people have lived 5050 years…)
‘100’ (from 0 to 100 years in 150 seconds) from Filmersblog on Vimeo.
that was beautiful… especially when they start getting older. How strange that it’s so powerful
I found the older bits powerful, too, but maybe because we haven’t gotten there yet. It’s the bit that’s most mysterious to us. I wonder what parts resonated with senior citizens the most.
Really interesting…I’d love to see variants on this video. I feel like one done in Los Angeles would be quite different looking than the one from Amsterdam.
I would LOVE to see Los Angeles. Yesterday I saw a blonde with a stroller and I honestly couldn’t tell if she was a mom or a grandma. She read a little older, but she was dressed like she was in her twenties and was very thin. Then again, she could have been a meth head. Yes, the L.A. version would definitely be different.