Finding Vivian Maier (2013)
Currently available through library streaming app Kanopy
and other fine and not so fine streaming establishments.
Themes: Isolation, Compartmentalization, Detaching, Distancing, Limiting External Stimuli, Single-Pointed Exclusionary Focus
"Ego-Stinge" - rather than greed, it is being stingy with oneself and secondarily with others... creating a dry and parched mistrusting environs.
Notice the opening words describing Vivian... All Five descriptors.
What subtype/instinct do you think she prioritized?
“Who is the person behind the work?”
“Loner, no family, no love life, private.”
“She was a packrat.”
“A secret little hiding spot for all her things”
“Uncashed govt checks... teeth”
“Obsessed with saving little bits of time...”
“So secretive.”
“Always the camera around her neck....” “a great disguise camera” “she could be secretive... bc the camera shot from below.”
“Street photographers tend to be gregarious... .. but also a funny mixture of solitaries... you observe.. take in... stay invisible.”
“She was not an open person, she was a closed person.” “Please put in a lock” mysterious.
"Lots of boxes" (self-pres hoarding)...
“She would avail herself very freely of the free samples”... STINGY
She took pic of one of the kids who had been hit by a car.. “There’s Vivian taking pictures as usual.”
Vivian videos her own investigation of a local murder.
Storekeeper says I’d say “What’s your name?” V would say “I’m not going to tell you...” or give a fake name.. to hold items she never came back for. (Sandra Maitri -author- likes to say Fives HOLD ON and HOLD IN)
Professor asked V what she does: “I’m sort of a spy.”
WINGS: 6 fear and 4 romantic/artist... she really didn’t want to be someone else, she just didn’t want people to know her. Secret.
FOUR ARTISTRY/CREATIVITY and SIX FEAR THEY WILL GET ME....
She had someone else provide a home for her, pay her, and she had time for her photographic endeavors: very economical!
“I think she might have seen this (movie) as an INTRUSION.”
“The whole family is a mystery family” — genealogy specialist. Disconnected from one another. “I make no provisions for any of my relatives...” an aunt cut everyone off.
You come to find out she DID know her work was good and she DID want it shared correctly.
This movie made me think of the expression “TAKE a picture”—- TAKE means it’s oneway. Gimme. Give me your image, but I'm back here observing and not necessarily giving you anything.
“I told you so” themes (of a Type Six wing)"... She collected stories and photos about human grossness/crime/bizarreness...
WINGS: Afraid of men (Type Six), paranoid, private and suspicious; Artistic, romantic (Type 4).
One of the kids peeked into Vivian’s room: “The room was literally filled floor to ceiling with newspapers.” One of the parents “she grudgingly gave me a key... stacks of newspapers...” Hoarding of papers filled with articles she wanted read or save....She would rig the books at the end of the desk to see if someone had gone through her stuff. More reclusive, more hoarding, more paranoia. Stingy hoarding of information.
“Who took my papers? Who took my papers?”
Vivian had a hard time leaving a house and letting real estate staff show the house..
Photographer:
She might have thought: “Why didn’t I try to get that work out there?”
“Some people’s character prevents them from pushing that little bit you need to push to get the work seen. You know she didn’t defend herself as an artist, she just did the work....”
Showing the different gallery openings, esp her family's town in France... it's ironic: all the warmth and connection that occurs *after* she is gone. She may have been overwhelmed with all the attention if alive. This seems a Type Five theme to me as well, that they will hold on and hold in often until it is too late... and the emotion/richness/connection happens later (if at all).
If you want extra credit for the shadow course on Type Five:
Read/Watch Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer) for Type Five or
Read/Watch What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal (Zoë Heller) for a gleeful train wreck of a Four and a Five.
"Ego-Stinge" - rather than greed, it is being stingy with oneself and secondarily with others... creating a dry and parched mistrusting environs.
Notice the opening words describing Vivian... All Five descriptors.
What subtype/instinct do you think she prioritized?
“Who is the person behind the work?”
“Loner, no family, no love life, private.”
“She was a packrat.”
“A secret little hiding spot for all her things”
“Uncashed govt checks... teeth”
“Obsessed with saving little bits of time...”
“So secretive.”
“Always the camera around her neck....” “a great disguise camera” “she could be secretive... bc the camera shot from below.”
“Street photographers tend to be gregarious... .. but also a funny mixture of solitaries... you observe.. take in... stay invisible.”
“She was not an open person, she was a closed person.” “Please put in a lock” mysterious.
"Lots of boxes" (self-pres hoarding)...
“She would avail herself very freely of the free samples”... STINGY
She took pic of one of the kids who had been hit by a car.. “There’s Vivian taking pictures as usual.”
Vivian videos her own investigation of a local murder.
Storekeeper says I’d say “What’s your name?” V would say “I’m not going to tell you...” or give a fake name.. to hold items she never came back for. (Sandra Maitri -author- likes to say Fives HOLD ON and HOLD IN)
Professor asked V what she does: “I’m sort of a spy.”
WINGS: 6 fear and 4 romantic/artist... she really didn’t want to be someone else, she just didn’t want people to know her. Secret.
FOUR ARTISTRY/CREATIVITY and SIX FEAR THEY WILL GET ME....
She had someone else provide a home for her, pay her, and she had time for her photographic endeavors: very economical!
“I think she might have seen this (movie) as an INTRUSION.”
“The whole family is a mystery family” — genealogy specialist. Disconnected from one another. “I make no provisions for any of my relatives...” an aunt cut everyone off.
You come to find out she DID know her work was good and she DID want it shared correctly.
This movie made me think of the expression “TAKE a picture”—- TAKE means it’s oneway. Gimme. Give me your image, but I'm back here observing and not necessarily giving you anything.
“I told you so” themes (of a Type Six wing)"... She collected stories and photos about human grossness/crime/bizarreness...
WINGS: Afraid of men (Type Six), paranoid, private and suspicious; Artistic, romantic (Type 4).
One of the kids peeked into Vivian’s room: “The room was literally filled floor to ceiling with newspapers.” One of the parents “she grudgingly gave me a key... stacks of newspapers...” Hoarding of papers filled with articles she wanted read or save....She would rig the books at the end of the desk to see if someone had gone through her stuff. More reclusive, more hoarding, more paranoia. Stingy hoarding of information.
“Who took my papers? Who took my papers?”
Vivian had a hard time leaving a house and letting real estate staff show the house..
Photographer:
She might have thought: “Why didn’t I try to get that work out there?”
“Some people’s character prevents them from pushing that little bit you need to push to get the work seen. You know she didn’t defend herself as an artist, she just did the work....”
Showing the different gallery openings, esp her family's town in France... it's ironic: all the warmth and connection that occurs *after* she is gone. She may have been overwhelmed with all the attention if alive. This seems a Type Five theme to me as well, that they will hold on and hold in often until it is too late... and the emotion/richness/connection happens later (if at all).
If you want extra credit for the shadow course on Type Five:
Read/Watch Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer) for Type Five or
Read/Watch What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal (Zoë Heller) for a gleeful train wreck of a Four and a Five.
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