Rockaway and the Surfers

My friend Chris is doing a documentary about the urban surfing scene in the cold weather, as he feels it is a practice that a lot of people don't really know anything about.

Today, I went out to the Rockaways with him to do some shooting. We set up an Ex1 on a motor controlled CineSlider and he did some video shooting with a Canon 7D with a 70-200mm lens and I shot with a Canon 7D with a 24-70mm lens. We got some nice stuff, I'm interested to see how it came out.

I brought out my GoPro but didn't really end up shooting with it. Here's a picture of Chris getting contact information from one of the surfers we interviewed.

The Astral Woman

Here is my 4 min short, 'The Astral Woman'.

The Astral Woman from Cait Davis on Vimeo.

In many cultures, The Astral Man or The Cosmic Man is a symbolic representation of the human beings potentiality towards wholeness. The symbol can also be seen as a symbol of Self. "According to the testimony of many myths, the Cosmic Man is not only the beginning but also the final goal of all life--of the whole of creation." (Marie-Louise von Franz, “Man and His Symbols”) This symbol is sometimes represented as a hermaphrodite, to show the joining of opposites, though quite often is represented by a white male human being. In “The Astral Woman” I have begun what I hope to be a small series of various short films that start to re-define the masculine dominance in our cultural history. I want to take strong and meaningful concepts and replace the dominant image with something different.