Dear Doc
Here, Robert Kramer talks to his accomplice, Paul McIsaac, alias Doc, the main character in Doc’s Kingdom and Route One/USA. This video letter, written, filmed and composed once Route One/USA had been edited, expresses all the strength and density of a long-standing friendship that was to become enduringly steadfast through the creation of two films.
“I’ve always been frightened of what you might call the Jonas Mekas syndrome, which means: ‘I totally embrace my subjectivity’. I had decided to go to the very end, I was going to say everything. Show everything, for once. And then, there’s every way to not even show what you thought you were going to show. I really wanted to reach another level. I wanted to do this by working twenty-four hours a day. You could also call it the Chris Marker syndrome. I was going to plunge into it completely. I wasn’t going to answer the phone, go home, and I’d see what would happen. What did happen is Dear Doc.»
Robert Kramer
Les Films d'ici, La Sept
Robert Kramer
Documentaire sur Grand Ecran, hmasson@documentairesurgrandecran.fr