Melinda Camber Porter in Conversation with Alain Resnais

Two years ago today, French film director Alain Resnais died in Paris. In 1985 Melinda sat down with him to discuss, among other things, his latest film, L'Amour a Mort. There discussion was included in Melinda's book Through Parisian Eyes.

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An Excerpt from Melinda's Conversation with Wim Wenders

From the set of Paris Texas

Melinda Camber Porter: The first thing I have been noticing on the set is that everyone is very confused. It seems that every decisions of yours gets changed at the last moment, and I wondered if this was a conscious choice. That's to say that, you know, like in sculpture, if you're dealing with marble, let's say, you knock away at something, and if you're dealing with clay, you build it up. I was wondering if it was a conscious artistic choice.

Wim Wenders: We decided to keep ourselves totally open. And in a sense, I wish, myself, I hadn't been that open, but I think it was for the good of the movie because we really found out a lot of things about what should actually happen at the end. And I don't think anybody could have conceived the ending that we have now, a month ago.


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“This is an exceptional book on Wim Wenders. Frankly, I was not prepared for this extraordinary volume. The depth of Melinda Camber Porter’s interview with Wim Wenders is breathtakingly apparent. Speaking from experience, I am in the position to truly appreciate work of this nature and Melinda Camber Porter’s remarkable achievement.”

                                                                                                                      - Michael Edelson
                                                                                                                      Professor Emeritus
                                                                                                                      Film and Photography
                                                                                                                      Stony Brook University

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Melinda Camber Porter purchased a Polaroid camera in 1979. She was fascinated by the fact one was able to get instant feedback with a photo from a camera, and not wait days or weeks to get ones traditional photography developed. Today we of course call this a ‘Selfie’.

From 1979 to 1983 Melinda Camber Porter took over one-hundred and twenty-five Polaroid Selfies. She placed each of her Polaroid Selfies in chronological order into a three inch thick ringed photobook. She was obviously fascinated with and had deep interest in what ‘Selfies’ showed her about herself.

She now had the ability to take a photo of herself in many different ‘emotion states’ and see if she could capture the ‘emotional state’ of her mind in her face on the Polaroid Selfie. She wrote various annotated statements next to some of her Polaroid Selfies that gives us insight into her Polaroid Selfies. She wrote, “I am depressed”, “I am trying to be happy”, “I am thinking of love” and so forth about her state of mind when she took each Polaroid Selfie.

Melinda Camber Porter was addressing the classic Mind-Body problem. Does my face of my Body show what I am thinking in my Mind, when I take the photo? She was using the new Polaroid camera technology as her laboratory equipment to log her thoughts as expressed in her face. For some reason she understood the photos were important enough to log each Polaroid Selfie in chronological order over the years 1979-1983. She knew they did provide her with some type ‘insight’ into her life and emotions and wanted to keep them in diary form.

Melinda on the French View of Love and its Influence on Her Work

Excerpt from The Art of Love documentary

 

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Being of Two

from The Art of Love: Love Poems and Paintings
by Melinda Camber Porter

The two world
Come together
Tensing to touch the
Second of coming to being

This being of two
Plunders the sky and
The earth of all passion
And colour and force

The two worlds
Unite present with past
Till the scars of severed
Childhood and birth
Are soothed, softened away

In the rush of the first
River rain
And the old landscape appears out of blue mist.


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Melinda on Passion in Marriage

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