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Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.18,0:00:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ALEX DA CORTE] This house is a portrait\Nof the land I live in.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.50,0:00:30.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought, "How do I know my life?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.14,0:00:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How do I know my politics,\Nhow do I know my religion,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.40,0:00:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"how do I know my love?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.48,0:00:41.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I probably learned it from my family.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.72,0:00:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, mostly I probably learned it from TV.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.66,0:00:50.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I were to make a portrait of a place,\Nmaybe I would to begin with TV.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.44,0:00:59.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ve recycled a bunch of old faces\Ninto some kind of fresh variety show,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.98,0:01:05.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making 57 videos for the\N57th Carnegie International in Pittsburgh.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.72,0:01:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ALEX DA CORTE: 57 VARIETIES]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.18,0:01:16.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Liv, I think it’s cool.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.50,0:01:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Yeah, I think you just let it be loose\Nand it seems natural.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.86,0:01:33.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Yeah, this is my favorite costume so far,\NLiv.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.48,0:01:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I’m attracted to a certain character,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.38,0:01:43.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it may be just a character that’s misunderstood,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.89,0:01:47.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a character that has a beautiful color.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.68,0:01:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Yeah, I think that’s pretty beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.76,0:01:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--It’s really beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.80,0:01:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Let me know when you’re ready and I’m\Ngoing to put my leg up.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.62,0:02:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m going to be sharing this glass of wine\Nwith Oscar,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.05,0:02:05.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the wine seems to pour indefinitely.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.56,0:02:11.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re actually having this drink in a painting\Nby Patrick Caulfield called "Dining Recess,"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.54,0:02:17.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but used a slight visual trickery where it\Nseems as though I'm flatter than I actually am.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.32,0:02:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[DIRECTOR] Ready, action.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.40,0:02:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Pouring.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.36,0:02:27.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DA CORTE] Caroll Spinney, the actor who played\NBig Bird
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.34,0:02:29.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Oscar the Grouch up until recently,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.42,0:02:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was operating Oscar the Grouch\Nand he was wearing his Big Bird legs.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.04,0:02:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought, that’s this beautiful moment\Nof transition--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.22,0:02:49.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I think we as a country and as a people\Nare always transitioning.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.10,0:02:51.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[DIRECTOR] Alright, awesome!\N[CHUCKLES]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.64,0:02:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DA CORTE] In these videos,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.80,0:02:59.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I flatten the hierarchy to kind of\Ntake away maybe the privilege,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.53,0:03:05.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the authority,\Nthat some of these characters may have had
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.05,0:03:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and confuse them a little bit.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.70,0:03:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s this sort of fluidity that occurs\Nwhere
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.76,0:03:15.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can take any disparate thing
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.69,0:03:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and link them together,\Nand they’ll tell this new story.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.12,0:03:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I live in Philadelphia
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.94,0:03:29.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in my research, I was reading\Na lot of Ginsberg’s "Fall of America."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.34,0:03:34.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coincidentally Ginsberg is in\Na music video that Bob Dylan made
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.26,0:03:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called "Subterranean Homesick Blues."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.86,0:03:41.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought, how strange that\NBob Dylan is making this song
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.82,0:03:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the sign of the times in the late 60s,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.64,0:03:48.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fifty years later,\Nmaybe this is a similar moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.96,0:03:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in need of some empathetic conversation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.20,0:03:56.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And maybe if I use his words and\Npair them with my images
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.58,0:04:02.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I might make sense of America.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.50,0:04:10.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Distorted electric guitar plays "Taps"]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.28,0:04:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The witch is totally misunderstood.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.88,0:04:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A house landed on her sister.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.74,0:04:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s sad.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.60,0:04:43.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would be upset too.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.48,0:04:51.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dorothy, she’s just a boring white girl\Nwith some problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.42,0:04:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where the witch is an interesting green person\Nthat has a serious story behind her.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.22,0:05:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[DIRECTOR] 5-4-3-2-1, playback.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.30,0:05:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Patsy Cline’s “Blue” plays]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.42,0:05:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DA CORTE] I always think of this science\Nproject I did when I was younger
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.80,0:05:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about color and how it affects your mood.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.92,0:05:37.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does blue make you feel?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.60,0:05:39.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does green make you feel?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.18,0:05:43.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All emotions are interesting--\Nand hot and exciting.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.50,0:05:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not afraid of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.72,0:05:51.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Thanks, Gabs,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.02,0:05:55.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--For the seventeen thousand hours of work\Nto make those shoes!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.00,0:05:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Those shoes should just get wrapped up\Nand put in a safe
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.04,0:06:00.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--because they’re really special.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.46,0:06:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of the people that work with me are friends.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.36,0:06:06.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s a big family.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.59,0:06:09.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Shannon has worked all over the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.40,0:06:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--She’s from Philly.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.40,0:06:12.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--We just do it a little different here.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.21,0:06:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--We do it a little more dirty here.\N[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.94,0:06:19.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We as a studio all really value material.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.62,0:06:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone went to school for printmaking,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.44,0:06:27.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or sculpture, or working with neon, or sewing.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.76,0:06:32.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew up working in a meditative way
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.57,0:06:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and having those love hours go into the objects.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.14,0:06:40.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--I think of that really great\NMike Kelley piece,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.25,0:06:42.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--"More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid,"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.55,0:06:46.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--and thinking about crocheting or the unseen\Nlabor.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.70,0:06:50.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Oh yeah, that’s great!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.54,0:06:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[WOMAN] Yeah, totally worth it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.62,0:06:53.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[GROUP LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.30,0:07:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[DA CORTE] Cut.\NWas that better?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.32,0:07:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Hi, give me five.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.76,0:07:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--What up?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.60,0:07:09.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Hi, how are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.50,0:07:13.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--I'm making all these videos!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.92,0:07:15.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--It’s so soft, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.60,0:07:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[NEPHEW] Yeah, it’s soft!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.44,0:07:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[DA CORTE] It’s so soft!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.02,0:07:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My family is quite large.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.04,0:07:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m one of 27 grandkids.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.38,0:07:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s 28 great grandkids.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.73,0:07:31.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it’s quite a big family.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.33,0:07:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Pink Panther Theme" plays]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.55,0:07:36.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My whole family are house painters,\Nincluding my brother.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.06,0:07:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I had this idea to paint this\Nlarge rose wall pink.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.86,0:07:46.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[BROTHER] I’ll jump on the ladder and\Nspray everything,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.34,0:07:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--and then you just spray the last little\N[WHISTLES] at the end.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.80,0:08:01.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My grandmother made quilts and dollhouses
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.80,0:08:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and did a lot of handywork.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.20,0:08:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the lattice covered with roses is sort\Nof like
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.44,0:08:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a beautiful metaphor for my grandmother.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.56,0:08:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If her life was a lattice and the roses were\Nthe people that she touched in her life.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.44,0:08:24.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My family is all I have.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.90,0:08:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My family is everything to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.90,0:08:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Light of a Brand New Morning" by Dolly Parton\Nplays]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.80,0:08:51.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[DIRECTOR] Alright, cut!
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.40,0:08:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ve always been a homebody.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.50,0:09:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I was outside, I’d be in my backyard.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.06,0:09:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The house was a way to\Nprotect me from the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.84,0:09:10.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was in undergrad,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.18,0:09:13.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would spend a lot of time\Nin this one particular diner,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.10,0:09:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,drawing and eating a lot of\NFrench fries and ketchup.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.82,0:09:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The diner had warm-white neon\Naround the periphery of the whole space.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.86,0:09:31.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It still was a barrier that kept me in\Nand everything else out.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.82,0:09:34.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The neon just floats.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.15,0:09:37.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These words just float in the black void of\Nnight.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.56,0:09:43.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it evokes a kind of dream space.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.36,0:09:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s a bug zapping effect,\Nwhere it sort of pulls people in.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.62,0:10:01.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When someone has entered\NI’ve seen a whole gamut of feelings, felt.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.52,0:10:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that’s good to feel desire,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.36,0:10:11.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or disgust, or fear,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.98,0:10:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or overwhelming joy.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.08,0:10:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Rogers was a huge part of Pittsburgh.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.56,0:10:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As is ketchup.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.96,0:10:27.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I love ketchup.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.76,0:10:34.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Rogers's house reminded me\Nof my grandparents house.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.98,0:10:39.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His project was deeply about empathy.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.68,0:10:43.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, "Hey neighbor, lets talk about difference,"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.87,0:10:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"let’s talk about divorce, let’s talk\Nabout anger,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.68,0:10:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let’s talk about assasination."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.72,0:10:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wasn’t righteous,\Nhe was just asking questions,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.40,0:10:58.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and trying to understand\Nwhat do we make of this difference,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.58,0:10:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how do we move forward.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.28,0:11:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Light of a Brand New Morning" by Dolly Parton\Nplays]
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.00,0:11:20.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of those things are deeply important \Nand exciting.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.33,0:11:22.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s why we make art,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.20,0:11:29.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to propose that these feelings should\Ncome to the surface and be harvested.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.62,0:11:36.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[FAMILY LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.62,0:11:45.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[DA CORTE] I think that’s great
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.58,0:11:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[NIECE] You should keep it!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.08,0:11:50.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[WOMAN] It’s what Fred would have done.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.44,0:11:55.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[MUSIC FADES OUT]
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.94,0:12:02.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[DIRECTOR] We got it, we got it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.30,0:12:03.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[APPLAUSE]