Making Movies in Beverly, Massachusetts
Last summer while wandering doing street photography in Boston's Chinatown, I met a young filmmaker , Denan Deng, aka Patrick, an Emerson College student studying film production. We talked about motion picture cameras and film as I admired the 16mm Bolex camera in his hands. I once owned one as a college student at UMass studying film production in addition to photography, so it was wonderful to connect and have a conversation with him.
Today I met up with Patrick and 2 of his film production classmates, to be interviewed for their documentary film class project, on 16mm Kodak 500T film in an Arriflex 16SR motion picture 16mm film camera. I was asked how I got into photography, Buddhism, and activism, etc. Their film, when completed, will be 8 minutes.
After we finished filming in Beverly Common, I snapped a few photos of them
Below my photos is a short 16mm film that Patrick filmed that day last summer when we met. I'm in there near the beginning for about 8 seconds. It's cool to see myself in that old vintage film look. It was fun doing this with them, reminiscing of when I was also a student filmmaker, and I'm looking forward to seeing the final results of their hard work.
![Emerson College student filmmaker looks through viewfinder of Arriflex 16SR 16mm motion picture film camera in Beverly](http://images-pw.pixieset.com/elementfield/219039402/DSC_1671-a874dde6.jpg)
![Emerson College student filmmakers](http://images-pw.pixieset.com/elementfield/219039402/DSC_1672-a0ae571b.jpg)
![Emerson College students Mario Monj and Denan Deng, aka Patrick, filming in Beverly, Massachusetts](http://images-pw.pixieset.com/elementfield/219039402/DSC_1667-8b3f96e5.jpg)
16mm Short Film by Denan Deng
Below is Patrick's short film he filmed on his Bolex 16mm camera that day we met last summer. I'm in it for a few seconds near the beginning, and I think it's cool to see myself in that old vintage movie film look. If embedded video does not work, link to it is https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1b3411B7Qv/