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inbetweenspaces.com

IN BETWEEN SPACES is an experimental video project that explores the notion of a communal gaze. This collaborative documentary follows 12 individual perspectives from within a community; and through their eyes a sense of objective reality emerges. The community is Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

In the summer of 2011, I placed GoPro cameras in the hands of four people who filmed one hour of their lives over the course of 3 days. When their hour was up they handed the cameras on to four others of their choosing to repeat the process. This cycle happened once more and in the end, 12 hours of footage from the daily lives of individuals in Charlottetown was collected.

I then acted as the organizing principle (with the help of original music composed by Roger Carter rogercarter.bandcamp.com) ordering and filtering these layers of perspective into a whole.

The result is IN BETWEEN SPACES. onethousandflowers.tv

Videographers: Donnalee Downe, Michael Wasnidge, Sandi Hartling, Mauricio Aristizabal, Christine Landry, David Phillips, Kelly Caseley, John MacKenzie, BJ MacCarville, Chrissy Cerminara, Corrie Cerminara, Matt Bowness.

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  • Brice S. Bowman plus 2 months ago
    I like this very much Millefiore.
    Brice
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 2 months ago
    I'm very glad you do!
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  • MariaNYC plus 2 months ago
    Mille this is great. Congratz!
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 2 months ago
    Thankz.
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  • Guido bettinelli 2 months ago
    Great! awsome material! awsome idea!!! congrats!
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 2 months ago
    It was fun to make.
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  • constantingeorgescu 2 months ago
    Reminds me a bit of Godard... Totally captivating!
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 2 months ago
    I'll have to look into Godard... wait I shouldn't admit that.. ah what the heck.. I should look into Godard. Thanks.
  • constantingeorgescu 2 months ago
    I mean, how Godard is able to make normal life look captivating. Great work of editing and great idea!!
  • Kent Tate plus 2 months ago
    Now that I think about it I see what you mean about Godard. Very insightful, you got my mind rewinding.
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  • Trevor Kelley 2 months ago
    How on earth do you start editing something like this? It would spin my head in circles.
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 2 months ago
    You start by procrastinating. Then edging into it sideways. Then getting so caught up in it that you can't stop.
  • Frank N 1 month ago
    Jim Jarmusch said: "You can´t get lost, if you don´t know where to go."
    This in mind I guess the best starting point to edit something like this (and probable any film) is just get going! ...
  • Ernest Worthing plus 3 weeks ago
    Haha, i was thinking the same thing. Very well done!
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  • Kent Tate plus 2 months ago
    A really intriguing and inventive concept, Mille. I especially like your editing and Roger Carter's soundtrack. Great!
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 2 months ago
    Yes.. Roger's music seems to find a way into most of my work: rogercarter.bandcamp.com
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  • Trisha Clarkin 2 months ago
    Peaceful piece, lovely collaboration, NICE|~:
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 2 months ago
    :)
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  • paul happel 2 months ago
    compliment for this experiment
    nice for me to see some details of prince edward island
    where a friend of me several times a year spent his time
    kind regards

    paul
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 2 months ago
    Thanks Paul.
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  • Yvette Doucette 2 months ago
    really enjoyed this. what a cast and crew :) - lovely work on all and soundtrack - worked so well. thanks!
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 2 months ago
    a bit o' home!
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  • Eduardo Cuadrado plus 2 months ago
    interesting work not only from the personal way of editing(daring sometimes, but positive) and rithm, but sociological.-psycological documentary.
    congratulations and thanks for sharing. Edurado
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 2 months ago
    Thanks for watching!
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  • George S Semsel plus 2 months ago
    The film is refreshing, thoroughly enjoyable. The quality of the editing, shot selection and placement, is the key, reinforced by Roger Carter's sound. The diversity of the materials works well, moving beyond the anticipations wrouoght by the structure. (I must admit a small disappointment when I saw the fireworks I knew were there.). Overall, this is a work of quality which I hope gets broad viewing. There should be more like it. Thank you.
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 2 months ago
    Hi George.. grateful for the thorough response. You're words mean much. I'm glad you got something from this piece.
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  • Daniel Kojta 2 months ago
    Great production craft. Sound is well composed and blended beautifully. Loved the use of depth of field..
    This is very similar to a project I made for my thesis work. Titled, Alien Presence - [Handmade Echo], I put out an international callout to Video Artists who wanted to be part of an exhibited video work with around ten other video artists from all over the world. Each Artist was to shoot one min. of a desolate landscape; Each artist was restricted to frame the shoot with horizon line at one third up the frame; and all where coordinated through international time zones to record at the same moment, calculated to the second. Each Artist shot, then sent the works to me and I edited each of the works to line up beside each other in one long line - a coordinated international moment of present.
    As noted by Phenomenologist Merleau Ponty, these landscapes provide the perfect environment for a 'phenomena' to occur - activated only at a distance of perception. In effect I was producing a collaborative phenomena, identified only in post. These ingredients generate moments of 'pure presence' where one is both transfixed by wonder and transported by sense.
    Philip Fischer describes this moment as: “The moment of pure presence within wonder lies in the objects difference and uniqueness being so striking to the mind that it does not remind us of anything and we find ourselves delaying in its presence for a time in which the mind does not move on by association to something else."
    The work was exhibited at the Sydney Contemporary Art gallery; Stills. Thanks for reminding me of this work. Perhaps we could have a collaborative event of some video kind?
    Great work.
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 2 months ago
    Wow.. what feedback. Truly appreciated. I am intrigued by your work Alien Presence - and wonder how I might see it? I'm open to collaborations of all kinds.
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  • Garry B plus 2 months ago
    Millefiore this is magnificent. Great work! Amazing editing. Wonderful collaboration!
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 2 months ago
    Thanks indeed.
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  • Good editing Millefiore, tremendous collaboration project!
    Keep creating :)
    Leo
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 2 months ago
    Thanks Leo.. it was a long-standing inspiration come to life.
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  • shutterbliss plus 2 months ago
    Amazing
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 1 month ago
    thanks!
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  • Rick Macomber plus 2 months ago
    fav shot is the wide shot at the beach 1:47 : )
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 1 month ago
    everyone brought an entirely different 'eye' to the project.
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  • Joseph Conti 1 month ago
    very interesting, congratulations!
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 1 month ago
    thanks indeed.
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  • William Beckett 1 month ago
    The amount of work that goes into producing something like this must be staggering -- very cool, and a lot of fun. I especially enjoyed all the innovative point-of-view shots and hearing John's great poetry along with Roger's music.
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 1 month ago
    doesn't so much feel like work.. it's like embarking on a giant puzzle.. with great satisfaction when completed.

    that's our town... john and roger two of it's staple characters!
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  • Mark Rigler plus 1 month ago
    nice one
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  • Caleb Vinson plus 3 weeks ago
    Great Concept!! This poetry, the music, and the audio give it the right feel! It's cool to get a glimpse of people's lives! Congrats Millefiore!
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 3 weeks ago
    Thanks Caleb. It was great to work collaboratively.
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  • Ally 3 weeks ago
    That was excellent! :)
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 3 weeks ago
    thanks so much.
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  • Dominique Girouard 3 weeks ago
    Well played!I have no idea how you find the patience to edit so much footage.
    I automatically see your style even though others were handling the cameras. impressive.
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 3 weeks ago
    Hi.. thanks... editing is where the art is for me. i film because i must. i edit because i love.
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  • Steve Wood plus 3 weeks ago
    interesting project and nice edit! I like your diversity in projects!
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 2 weeks ago
    Thanks Steve.
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  • Annie 2 weeks ago
    unique film works,great music, Thanks Kent for sharing and added my channel 'welcome". Thanks Millefiore
  • Millefiore Clarkes plus 2 weeks ago
    Hey Annie.. I saw it on your channel. Merci muchly. Mille.
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