Waching daily Oct 28 2018

Film Courage: We had a few questions come in from our YouTube viewers and this one is from 'Ms Green' and she writes"How has what you've seen over time changed your view of life

and does it ever show up in your filming or do you edit it out?" Alexandria Bombach, ON HER SHOULDERS Documentary: Oh I think the

films I'm making are definitely starting from my experience and a lot of them

have to do with how I'm questioning how we're operating in this human experience

at all so with frame by frame I there was just

so many questions I was having as a storyteller about our perception and

where that comes from and one of the make a film about Afghan photographers

to talk about perception of a place that is so often this unknown known in a lot

of ways and with on her shoulders I was really interested and I mean this is

kind of feeding off of that in a way where it was continuing telling a story

about storytelling and the repetition and the packaging of stories of trauma

and how we're receiving that as an audience and our own relationship with

apathy and empathy through these stories and so I don't think I would ever make a

film where I already had the answer I already feel very strongly about things

like cigarettes or single-use plastic and I don't think I would ever make a

film about it because I already know how I feel about it

I think all of these films are questions that I'm also asking myself and I think

that's maybe where the energy comes from and and relates to an audience asking

themselves questions - um I think that's where it all comes from is my own

questioning of life and how I'm experiencing the world yeah where does

your love for storytelling come from I mean you had gone you said to study

marketing for and I can see why and it sounds like you took your love of the

environment and or different things and wanted to add that to your marketing

plan whatever but where does your love for

storytelling in film come from I

definitely have loved making videos since I was a kid I I don't know it's a

hard question to ask where does my love for storytelling come from because I'm

having a such a complicated relationship with storytelling even now after making

on her shoulders and really questioning where we're coming from the storytellers

and our responsibility to our subjects and who's telling what story and and and

why we're telling it and all sorts of different things so it's an interesting

space to be and now I know that I don't want to stop this work and I will

continue to make documentaries and probably die with a camera in my hands

but I don't even know where that comes from

I think I have no idea I think I feel like each film I make though is kind of

a exploration of things that I'm questioning about life it's a process of

pulling things out of myself and answering hard questions so it's a it's

I just love the process of it I love all of that and of course it takes me to and

just introduces me to people that I would never have met and I mean it's

such an honor to have met Nadia even though I wish of course that I would

never have met Nadia I wish none of this would have ever happened and she was

just still you know an unknown person in a village in Sinjar but I am so so

thankful that I got to meet these people and be exposed to their patience and

grace and empathy so I can see the world in a different way it's a quite a gift

and hopefully that's translated to the audience too