Dan Bell: Inside America's dead shopping malls
Dan Bell: Unutar propalih američkih trgovačkih centara
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"The Dead Mall Series,"
"Beživotni centri",
about dead malls.
beživotnim centrima.
not familiar with what a dead mall is,
zapravo beživotni centar,
and fewer shoppers,
manje i manje trgovina,
kind of a dark period in my life
mračno razdoblje svog života
to create films anymore.
nisam želio raditi filmove.
a short film about the Owings Mills Mall.
kratki film o Owings Mills Mall-u.
I was there on opening day.
sam bio tamo na dan otvorenja.
family in Baltimore,
imao kao tinejdžer
called Herman's World of Sports.
Herman's World of Sports.
ženske obuće,
very fond of the retail arts --
prodavačkim umijećima.
između tih nisko plaćenih poslova,
what kind of talk is this?"
kakav je ovo govor?"
but it could be really lame, too,
ali je znalo biti i jadno,
with a 40-year-old unemployed mall rat
s četrdesetogodišnjim uličarom
black lipstick for the night
from your crappy minimum wage job.
minimalno plaćenog posla.
it was in the evening,
za vrijeme večeri,
before they closed the mall for good.
zatvorili zauvijek.
this ominous feeling,
koban preosjećaj,
through the mall.
"The Dead Mall Series,"
ovome serijalu,
would share the enthusiasm
i ostalima biti zanimljiva
started to comment.
that's the mall from my childhood.
to je centar iz mog djetinjstva.
from people who were like,
koji su bili kao,
You should come and film it."
Trebao bi doći snimiti."
the mid-Atlantic region
Srednjoatlantskoj regiji
to get into the ones that were abandoned,
u one koji su bili napušteni,
like the dead malls.
kao beživotni centri.
like things are on the up-and-up.
je situacija odlična.
they put this tarp over the gate.
stave ceradu preko ulaza.
standing next to her, with, like,
pored nje
and then all over the world.
this could really be something,
ovo bi stvarno moglo biti nešto,
because I'm like,
jer razmišljam kao,
me waddling through an empty mall?
mene kako se gegam kroz prazan centar?
I filmed with an iPhone.
with an iPhone, and, you know.
i tako, znate.
they don't like photography --
ne vole fotografiranje --
"Put that away," and I'm like, "OK."
"Spremi to", a ja bih na to, "OK"
and different techniques
i druge tehnike
watching the screen --
who create music called vaporwave.
stvaraju glazbu zvanu "vaporwave".
among internet communities.
među internet zajednicama.
called "Hologram Plaza."
"Hologram Plaza".
you can hear more of those tunes.
možete pronaći još ovakvih melodija.
It's like a movement.
To je pokret.
with things you can't do anything about,
sa stvarima u vezi kojih ništa ne možemo,
basement eating ramen noodles.
u podrumu roditelja jedući Ramen rezance.
desire to express their hopelessness,
generacije da izrazi svoju beznandnost,
the pre-internet generation did
generacija prije interneta
and it's called the Sunrise Mall.
a zove se Sunrise Mall.
over and over and over again.
više puta ispočetka.
was "The Legend of Billie Jean."
"Legenda Billie Jeana".
"The Legend of Billie Jean,"
"Legendu Billie Jeana",
they are not related.
were brother and sister. They're not.
Nisu.
in the film as a filming location.
kao lokacija za snimanje filma.
as it was in 1984.
Let me show you.
Dopustite da vam pokažem.
running across the fountain,
kako trči kroz fontanu,
is what it looks like today.
kao danas.
falling in the fountain,
of the whole thing here.
cijelog prostora ovdje.
if I owned a dead mall --
da posjedujem beživotni centar --
on the door trying to get space.
tražeći prostor u centru.
to be kind of inspiring and --
three or four years ago,
writing me and saying,
pišu i govore,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dan Bell - FilmmakerDan Bell films urban decay.
Why you should listen
Dan Bell's narrative films and documentaries have screened at national and international film festivals. His critically acclaimed documentary web-shows, "Dead Mall Series" and "Dead Motel Series" have a devoted fan base worldwide. Bell new show, "Another Dirty Room," explores nasty hotel rooms. His documentary feature, "Margie and Scott" is slated for release in spring of 2017.
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