Download Melinda Camber Porter in Conversation with Wim Wenders: On Set of Paris, Texas 1983, Vol 1, No 3 AudioBook Free
The dialog between Wim Wenders and Melinda Camber Porter (1953-2008), occurred on location, in Dec 1983, while Mr. Wenders was taking pictures his first American film, Paris, Texas. America was a location of Western immigrants, German immigrants, and a vast land stretching to California. Men and women were becoming disillusioned and seeking "that something," just out of reach. Melinda Camber Porter asked, "After you say men have certain goals of women, just what do you indicate?" Wim Wenders explains, "We still have to determine what we indicate by that, because 'the persona' hasn't really known that yet [in taking pictures the film, Paris, Texas]. The character is getting prepared to confront the problem. I really do not work so a film is organized and people can spell it out. I work much more on intuition ...Sometimes filmmaking is very much predicated on very subconscious selections or intuitions." Paris, Texas, directed by Wim Wenders and compiled by Sam Shepard, with version by L.M. Set Carson, and starring Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, and Hunter Carson, amongst others. Melinda Camber Porter passed away from ovarian cancer in 2008 and left out a substantial body of work in art work, journalism, and literature. With her track record as a journalist for The Times of London, her interviews possessed a unique way of getting to the heart and soul of the creative process utilized by the countless widely acclaimed ethnic figures, filmmakers, and freelance writers, whom she spoke with.
