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LEISURELY PACE HELPS KINGSTON FILMMAKER IN CREATION OF DEBUT FEATURE FILM
1991
Overview
The nice thing about a leisurely film project, too, is that it can be governed by accidents some of the time. [Blaine Allan] first started collecting some of the footage that would wind up in You Are Not Alone during a 1986 road trip across the Southwestern U.S., before he had so much as a treatment in mind. A friend invited him to his wedding in Los Angeles, and Allan got talked into driving the distance with another friend who was living in Alabama at the time. On the chance that he might get to use it on something interesting, Allan brought one of the Queen's movie cameras along on the four- day drive. Home is Canada, and there is a classic subtext at work here about the mouse's search for an identity relative to the elephant. Looking at the plot (which is really just a collection of ideas, minuscule actions and impressions conveyed through a script that reads like a long Imagist poem) it could almost be considered a perfect expression of this theme of the Canadian in search of him- or herself. It is, after all, a \"detective story about a missing person, told from the point of view of the missing person,\" as Blaine Allan describes it. And there's another rub: the missing person winds up getting confused with the detective, so that finally we're not sure who has been looking for whom, who has returned home or who is staying away. An opening monologue by detective Politzer (Kingston stage actor and teacher Gord Love) lets us know just how important the idea of 'searching' is to the movie. Sitting on a hotel bed in the middle of nowhere, recording a taped message for his boss back in Canada, Politzer traces the origin of the word investigate by breaking it down into its Latin elements: \"In-and vestigare. Vestigate. That means to track, or trace. Vestigium. Trace. Like 'vestiges' or 'vestigal.' Like your appendix, a vestigal organ. The traces left behind. Following tracks. Looking for traces. Now 'searching.' Searching. That's something different. Like 'chercher,' in French. Search. Circare. Circare. Exploring. Not like looking for something, but like going around the world. Going around.\"
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