The work of David Redmon and Ashley Sabin first came on my radar when they arrived in Hartford, Ct to promote their eye-opening documentary, Mardi Gras: Made in China, tracing both the production and disposal of Mardi Gras beads. Recently I chatted with Redmon regarding his latest documentary Girl Model, which he co-directed with Sabin and I reviewed at Tiff. Girl Model has screened at festivals internationally including the One World Human Rights International Documentary Festival and you can read our conversation from SXSW below as the film is now in theaters.
Tfs: We met back in Hartford (at Real Art Ways) a few years ago and I was wondering what role cities with vibrant art communities that house these Micro Cinemas in often non-traditional venues (galleries, bars, libraries, coffee shops) play for you as filmmakers and distributors (via Carnavlesque Films)?
David Redmon: It’s even more necessary than before,...
Tfs: We met back in Hartford (at Real Art Ways) a few years ago and I was wondering what role cities with vibrant art communities that house these Micro Cinemas in often non-traditional venues (galleries, bars, libraries, coffee shops) play for you as filmmakers and distributors (via Carnavlesque Films)?
David Redmon: It’s even more necessary than before,...
- 9/5/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
At the beginning of Girl Model, dozens of girls are shown standing in bikinis and heels in a room of mirrors; the metaphor is obvious but succinct. It's hardly news that young women are exploited in the meat market of modeling. But Girl Model explores that on a deeper psycho-emotional level. Motivations are obscured and rationalized, making it impossible for an adult to navigate, let alone pubescent girls.
Filmmakers David Redmon and Ashley Sabin have a well earned reputation with a strong body of work, including Intimidad (SXSW 2008), Kamp Katrina (SXSW 2007), and Mardi Gras: Made in China. Their latest documentary Girl Model attempts to illuminate the illusive reality of young girls in the international modeling industry through a new model and the scout who found her.
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Filmmakers David Redmon and Ashley Sabin have a well earned reputation with a strong body of work, including Intimidad (SXSW 2008), Kamp Katrina (SXSW 2007), and Mardi Gras: Made in China. Their latest documentary Girl Model attempts to illuminate the illusive reality of young girls in the international modeling industry through a new model and the scout who found her.
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- 3/14/2012
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
Filmmakers David Redmon and Ashley Sabin (pictured above) have been collaborating on documentaries for years, including such titles as Kamp Katrina (SXSW 2007), Mardi Gras: Made in China (which earned a Documentary Grand Jury Prize nomination at Sundance 2005) and Intimidad (SXSW 2008). This time Redmon and Sabin tackle the provocative subject of fashion-model scouting, from the perspective of a former model turned scout and a young girl from Siberia pursuing a modelling career to support her family, in Girl Model. Redmon hails from north Texas.
What’s one thing about Girl Model that is going to make it impossible for people to resist seeing the film?
It's a strange journey into a house of mirrors, a place where you don't know who to trust.
Is there anything the audience should know about the movie before seeing it?
Girl Model took four years to make. We traveled to Siberia, Tokyo, Paris, NYC and...
What’s one thing about Girl Model that is going to make it impossible for people to resist seeing the film?
It's a strange journey into a house of mirrors, a place where you don't know who to trust.
Is there anything the audience should know about the movie before seeing it?
Girl Model took four years to make. We traveled to Siberia, Tokyo, Paris, NYC and...
- 3/5/2012
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
Interested in the end results of globalization, David Redmond and Ashley Sabin previously chronicled the end product of Mardi Gras party beads in Mardi Gras: Made in China. Their latest film, Girl Models, follows Ashley Arbaugh whose previous experience as a model working in Japan has led her to recruit Nadya, a 13-year old who bares a striking resemblance to actress Sarah Polley. Selected from a group of young women in a remote Siberian village – in a JonBenet Ramsey-type of contest to find the most appealing girl for the Japanese market – she is sent overseas on a two project modeling contract, the requisite for acquiring a Japanese work visa.
Redmond and Sabin chronicle an industry without commentary calling the overt sexualization of minors exploitation, a factor that may not register in Japan (or even in the Us fashion world, judging by how certain designers choose to represent their brand). Taking a direct cinema approach,...
Redmond and Sabin chronicle an industry without commentary calling the overt sexualization of minors exploitation, a factor that may not register in Japan (or even in the Us fashion world, judging by how certain designers choose to represent their brand). Taking a direct cinema approach,...
- 9/17/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Director: David Redmon (documentary) So where do you think Mardi Gras beads come from? The wrong answer (to quote an interviewee from Mardi Gras: Made in China) is: “Don’t know, don’t care; they are beads for boobs, man.” The correct answer is: China. I know what most of you are saying: Don’t bring my conscience into this great holiday of decadence a.k.a. Mardi Gras, I will go back to feeling guilty on Wednesday (Ash Wednesday that is – the first day of Christianity’s Lent). Well, it is thinking like that which has perpetuated the problems regarding the production of Mardi Gras beads. So in an attempt to shove the problem in our faces, director David Redmon takes us directly to the source – the Tai Kuen Bead Factory located in Fuzhou, Fujian China. At the Tai Kuen Bead Factory, employees work 14-hour shifts (which includes breaks...
- 2/16/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
For an allegedly Christian country, the United States seems to have forgotten the lesson of Eve’s apple, which is not only that Edenic ignorance is bliss; but, that consciousness is a painful but necessary act that leads to hard work. Foisting that hard work on others in an effort to regain the bliss of the Garden is not only hypocritical but misses the point of conscious discernment altogether; which is as serviceable a definition of globalization as any. In his first film, Mardi Gras: Made in China, David Redmon infers that the flip side of prideful excess is shameful impoverishment. Inference, in style, is his editorial strategy and it works—at least in part—by an astute focus on something as simple as following a string of party beads from the Chinese factory where they’re produced to the Bourbon Street revelry where they’re thrown away. Through such a simple premise,...
- 8/15/2008
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
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