Patron Saint

NAOMI UMAN



Specifically Private Movie, which was mentioned in a previous post. 

Since this film is impossible to find on the internet, here's a brief synopsis:

"A love story in three parts. Through studies on light, movement, happiness, glowing darkness and flickering melancholia, this film tells of a woman's journey of love, with nostalgia, pets, places, and men." 

Naomi Uman

Naomi's films are hard to reach, non traditional, avant garde films and shorts and docs that push the boundaries of art and experiment with many different processes and ideas.

Most famous for Removed, where Uman took a 70s porno and used nail polish to remove the entirety of the woman's body. 

Private Movie does a lot that I want to do in my film and evokes similar emotions. The darkness and "flickering melancholia", the movement and the nostalgia. Although my film won't be a love story, in a way it will be about love, in mundane things and art. 

Noami Uman is an inspiration with all of her films, but Private Movie is really the only one of hers this project is inspired by. Another avant garde filmmaker that inspires my work is all of Bill Brown's work. Check him out!!

still from Removed