As a filmmaker, the last thing you want to do is place kids in emotional or physical jeopardy, ... Especially for me, coming from a place of really loving those kids. |
I have endless sympathy for (them) because I see myself so much in them. |
I have this audiotape that I made when I was like 6 or 7 that's just one side of a conversation with spaces for me to fill in the rest, ... So, I could play it back and talk to myself. Don't know if that's art, but it was definitely a sort of way of taking care of myself. |
I wanted to talk about that and show that without having to just have a vocabulary of blame or shame -- to say that it can be both really scary and OK, ... It can also be sad and exciting and even kind of fulfilling. It's really not a good conversation to leave to ped-ophiles. It's much better to actually talk about it without pathology. |
I'm specifically interested in how to create a vocabulary about children's sexuality. That it exists at all, and that it exists in an adult world, |
Me and You and Everyone We Know |
The worst thing to me is the limited vocabulary of childhood sexuality. Parents, more than anyone, know their kids are sexual. |
There are going to be points of contact. That's just a fact. That it's not inherently bad. In reality, the way that the two worlds interact are often very, very subtle, almost inarticulatable. |