I think of my newest project as an old project. I worked on it off and on for 7 years. It took a long time for me to realize what the pieces were and what they meant. I thought there were pieces missing until just recently.
The narrative framework mirrors Chris Marker's Sans Soleil - a woman's voice reading a letter. The references to Jupiter reflect my interest in The Toynbee Tiles's writings about the resurrecting the dead on Jupiter. Nothing Blue is a transmission from a place of loneliness, a hopeful message in a bottle. It is about leaving the sturdy framework of a lifelong relationship.
Wanting the viewer to see Jupiter but only seeing blue reminds me of the opening sequence of Sans Soleil where Marker's narrator says:
The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland, in 1965. He said that for him it was the image of happiness and also that he had tried several times to link it to other images, but it never worked. He wrote me: one day I'll have to put it all alone at the beginning of a film with a long piece of black leader; if they don't see happiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black.
