Mary Lampson

Sound accompaniment: a kind of fuzziness (heat vent kicking on, wind outside?)

Drinks: Coffee

Mary Lampson

Some things that joined us in the conversation: milk frothers, Crip Camp, egg timer, Noxzema take it all off, D.A. Pennebaker, Emile de Antonio, Mary’s Sundance talk on the Art of Editing, Harlan County, Mona Davis, Jonathan Oppenheim, Eileen Meyer, Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht, Shane Hofeldt, Nancy Baker, Trouble the Water, Luke Lorentzen, Kellen Quinn, Julia Reichert, Steve Bognar, (A Lion in the House), Agnes Varda: “I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue—if it doesn't also arise from your body and your immediate lived experience. That's why I always refer to 'subjective documentary.' It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film,” Time, Buster Keaton