Adore

ADORE

- Black and White, 4 minutes, 16mm, Sound - 1978

In 1977, I moved to Boston and started working for FILM SERVICE LAB. I was in charge of the Black and White movie film processing department. I mixed the chemicals, mounted the 16mm / Super 8 films in light tight holders, then threaded and ran the machines that processed these films. While working there, I decided that I should take this opportunity to make a film of a door that I would pass each day on my way from subway to my job. This might seem an odd subject, but this DOOR was on the headquarters for a Tea Import company and it was 15 feet high with 8 sculpted relief panels showing the story of how tea is collected in India and shipped to Boston.

Each day I would eat my packed lunch while I worked (which I was told not to do), and then at my lunch break, I would run over to THE DOOR and shoot a roll of film. I then would go back to work and process my own film with the next batch. I then made work prints and processed those.

I used music from the same LP that I used for Daddy You Hit A Dog, and cut the film using tight shots of the sculpted panels, so that you saw the story but didn’t know the context of the panels. As the film progresses, I showed more and more of the door until at the very end of the film, you get to see the full door in all its glory.