For the past few weeks, I’ve been up at Maine Media Workshops taking some lighting and camera courses, including a week focused on the documentary style cinema verite. I reached out to author Elizabeth Hand, who lives in the area, and she was kind enough to let me film her writing at her beautiful Tooley Cottage. Cinema Verite seeks to capture the truth of the situation while acknowledging that there is a filmmaker and camera present. Every choice I make is going to affect your perception of the subject, but my goal is to portray the “truth” of the moment as accurately as I can. All music is what Liz was playing; I haven’t touched the space nor the lighting.