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...Buckingham, editing from eight hours of film, manages to keep such lines as "when I get to a door, sometimes when I'm alone, I just stand there. I'm so used to boys opening doors for me." But the video isn't simply about dialogue. Buckingham follows her blind aunt, focusing the camera on a woman who cannot see she is being taped. Her project evokes irony and discomfort, employing a careful combination of images, sound and dialogue...
...Buckingham's red VES video locker, there are also examples of the typical make-you-cringe sort of video. For a minute and a half, she slowed down her roommate's laugher while focusing her camera on a newborn gerbil with a head injury. Videos that make you sick to your stomach are fashionable right now, and Buckingham is certainly accomplished in this genre. The eerie quality of Buckingham's video work is captured in her "Christmas 81-2000," where a dreamy sequence of caroling and light trails fades to her grandmother on the phone, stating, "I've never molested...
...Buckingham's big video project this semester will most likely involve editing and expanding her longest piece, a 12-minute sequence that intersperses scenes of her mother, more clips of her grandmother and shots of Buckingham with her best friend at age 13, "more drunk than I've ever been in my whole life," as she says. Editing plans include making her grandmother seem "less of a monster" and more conversation about "eating disorders and feminine identity...
...Buckingham wants to make people uncomfortable and to "get them to talk about things they wouldn't talk about otherwise," and she definitely succeeds. Her footage is not just controversial, but artistic; she wouldn't be able to produce such visceral reactions in her viewers unless her editing and her images weren't replete with talented editorial decisions and craftsmanship with her camera...
While future plans include a year in Brazil to shoot a thesis, practice Portuguese and have a lot of fun, hopefully under a Harvard sponsorship umbrella, Buckingham is fine where she is now, mostly in the basement of Sever, recombining the stories in her memory for other people...