Guest Site: Making A Nudist Documentary Film with FKK

Note from Jordan & Felicity: Her name was Dana, so that as her final project for one of her
classes, she wanted to make a brief documentary about FKK / naturism.
We agreed to take action in exchange for her composing an article about her experience to
make the picture. So this is her story below, along with her documentary at the end!
Naturist documentary film
Guest website by: Dana Schlieman
Naturist Documentary - My first experience with documentary filmmaking presented a chance
to force myself out of my comfort zone and research something I hadn't ever done before. My
taste has ever been story, fiction movie, and the appointment of a 5-10 minute documentary
by my Non-Fiction Avi professor made me queasy and sweaty with worry.
I spent another week wracking my brain for a area that would be interesting to an audience
but that was also manageable for someone with my level of expertise (which was low). I froze
in my bed as this idea crystallized into a project proposal: an exploration of modern nudists in
Nyc and how they lived their lives within society.
The project immediately began to come together in my mind's eye as I reached for my
telephone to start my research. Abruptly I hit a wall. I found out that naturist resorts and
beaches were closed down in late September, for the duration of the winter months. It was
the middle of October now, and my thought fell apart as fast as it have been built up. I
backtracked, dejected and unenthused, to the subject of colorblindness and landed on this as
the topic for my film. It was boring, but at least it was not seasonal.
On proposal day in class, I decided to present the concept for my naturist movie anyhow, in
order that my professor could see that I was more intriguing than my colorblind project
suggested. I shared the idea with my course, along with the challenges I 'd ran into, and
explained why I would not be able carry this project out.
http://talewiki.com/cushion.php?http://wwwnaturism.top , who appeared to have tuned me out
while I talked about colorblindness, abruptly pricked their ears as I told them my initial idea.
They stared at me for a few seconds when I was finished, and I stared back, my ears
burning.
You have to do that endeavor, my classmates told me, with more earnestness than I'd ever
received from them. I looked to my professor for help, and he stared at me too. It actually
does sound amazing, he told me.
http://www.stocking-moms.com/ftt2/o.php?u=https://beachnude.xyz argued with them for a
little while as they threw their ideas at me. They insisted that there had to be a alternative.
Talk to the individuals who run a resort even if they're not working right now, one classmate
said. I asked her what I would film in that case other than the interviews.
A movie about naturism should actually have naked people in it, shouldn't it? I asked them.
We went back and forth like this for some time before my professor stopped us.
Only consider it, he told me. The colorblind thing seems good. I looked up at him hopefully.
But the naturism sounds extremely good.
I had the choice to make an aesthetically pleasant film for an easy A that no one would care
about, myself included, or I could try just a little bit harder and end up with something I might
actually take pride in. Finally, Google rewarded me with the Nudist Portal website.
Everything about FKK was so welcoming that I was immediately comfortable, and I 'm easily
made uneasy generally in most situations. They talked about naturism and naturism the way
I might tell someone my feelings for art and my pets. It was clear how dear their mission was
to them, and how important it was to them to remove the stigma surrounding nudity, and I
quickly found my own feelings about it-that it should be private and earmarked for a few very
specific situations-coming into question.
When Felicity and Jordan agreed to meet with me, I was extremely excited-at first. Shortly I
was plagued with a few very real problems. For starters, I am already quite nervous at the
idea of talking to strangers (my parents had to purchase my food for me in restaurants until I
was about 16). I stressed that, in my ignorance of this issue that I was so new to, I'd say or
ask something unintentionally offensive and they would hate me. I also worried that they
might be too weird for me to cope with and I 'd have to back out of the obligation I was
planning to make together, another idea that gives me heart palpitations.
I walked from my first meeting with Felicity and Jordan astounded at one basic fact: They
were so pleasant, I told my friends when I got home. The pair had explained their no-
judgment way of life to me, and I could tell they were not saying it the way other people say
it; they actually meant it. I know I am not like that, and I could not think of a single reason
why.
The day we filmed, I kept finding myself thinking: This all looks so ordinary. And then I gave
myself a mental slap across the face and wondered, why should not it seem ordinary? I
located my dialogue with Jordan more exciting than anything I had learned from my school
professors previously year-and-a-half, and with Felicity I felt like I was speaking into a buddy,
one who simply did not happen to be wearing clothes. And I think all three of us expected me
to be uncomfortable, but I actually wasn't.
Everyone I told about my job was extremely inquisitive about it. Between October and
December, I think the question I got asked the most was: How is it going with the nudists? It
seemed that everyone expected some sort of scandal, for me to be taken captive and forced
to join a naked cult or something. I was almost smug at how small dirt I 'd for them. I felt
strangely faithful to the naturist community, like I was now a tiny part of the fight to shed light
on the body image and censoring dilemmas that my subjects had brought to my attention.
The entire experience even got me working on my own body image issues and other private
stuff that I Have never actually thought about before.
And to anyone who still asks me, when talking about my job, Was Not that really
uncomfortable? all I can do is shrug and answer truthfully: No.
If you are wondering about the organ that reveals on the display within the documentary, it's
a joke advertisement for a radio station in Australia and can be seen on vimeo channel here.
The vulva that additionally revealed on the display is a unique music video of singing vulvae
and can be viewed on vimeo here.
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