{"id":75031,"date":"2015-05-26T15:13:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T19:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=75031"},"modified":"2015-05-26T15:17:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T19:17:01","slug":"the-torture-of-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/the-torture-of-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Torture of Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI would like to be more prolific in being able to explore some personal things about myself. I&#8217;ve been really guarded most of my life,\u201d filmmaker Adria Petty responds speaking of her series of shorts. Petty\u2013yes, as in Tom Petty&#8217;s daughter\u2013is someone who seems to be most comfortable with language in its figurative sense. It&#8217;s a personal\u00a0dialect\u00a0more native than talk.\u00a0Her producer fittingly describes it as her \u201cabstract alphabet.\u201d That would explain her attraction to music videos and her espousing of fashion&#8217;s inherently\u00a0visual agenda. Her filmography bounces from artists like Beyonc\u00e9, Rihanna and longtime-friend Regina Spektor, to beauty spots for Lanc\u00f4me. Recently, Adria joined <a href=\"http:\/\/cadence-ny.com\">Cadence<\/a>\u2019s roster of image makers as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/mssngpeces.com\">Missing Pieces<\/a>, two New York City based artist reps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Relentless&#8221; is the second chapter of Adria&#8217;s personal autobiographical short films, which she filmed while (very) pregnant with her daughter Everly (named after her father&#8217;s guitar). The first being &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowness.com\/story\/adria-petty-nu-6\">NU-6<\/a>&#8221; and was a dreamlike documentation of her oddly emotional experience receiving an auditory test after temporarily losing her hearing. &#8220;Every word that they would ask me about would bring up this flood of thoughts and visual things and I was in this little soundproof cube that looked like a \u201850s bomb-shelter,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;Relentless&#8221; inwardly-looking explores Adria&#8217;s nebulous relationship with Everly&#8217;s father. For both nearly wordless films there&#8217;s an emphasis on personal disorientation that pivots on Adria&#8217;s eccentric edits. That playful sensibility creates her signature visual mischief.<\/p>\n<p>Adria is a long-time New Yorker who resides in the East Village, so we sat down with her at Cafe Mogador to discuss her work.\u00a0Debuting exclusively on Models.com, here is Adria Petty&#8217;s short film &#8220;Relentless&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/120110203?color=ffffff&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>I read an article that you were selling your NYC apartment but this was back in 2012. But you didn&#8217;t end up selling it. You&#8217;re still there?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I ended up having a baby and not being quite as footloose and fancy free as I was before she arrived. I feel very connected with NY. I would like to move but I&#8217;m very attached to the neighborhood and my home. I&#8217;m kind of looking for the right place before I move.<\/p>\n<p><b>How has having a child changed NYC for you?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I just look forward to sharing it with her at every stage of her development because I love New York so much and I love my friends here so much that I just am excited for her to have that cultural impact and the kind of joy that I get from my friends who are my family here.<\/p>\n<p><b>You traveled a lot when you were younger I imagine. Has that influenced the way you live your life\u2013do you like to travel still?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah I traveled all the time. I like traveling. I feel really inspired by people and places. Connecting with new experiences. A lot of people who are the children of musicians and raised on the road, also I think children of directors and actors, you get used to not having that stability. That actually becomes your stability.<\/p>\n<p><b>Is there a particular idea that you always find yourself exploring? Even if you&#8217;re not thinking about it\u2013saying, \u201coh here it is again\u201d?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Falling. I think falling and people falling through some void. I find that image a lot in my work. It&#8217;s a sort of idea of the world out of control, but it&#8217;s safe. It&#8217;s a safe fall. It&#8217;s more like \u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d falling down the rabbit hole. That idea of falling down the rabbit hole and embracing the chaos theory. I think the chaos theory is at the heart of the creative work I do, that there is sort of an amalgam of influences between the conscious and unconscious mind that pushes forward all the time.<\/p>\n<p><b>What inspired Relentless?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>What was heavy on my mind was this relationship with Everly\u2019s father, which is to this day just this completely undefinable and strange chemistry that I can&#8217;t say it&#8217;s good or it&#8217;s bad. It&#8217;s just the torture of romance. I think I just wanted to put it into some art form and convey what had happened there and how consuming and intoxicating that experience had been. And so I think I did. I think I did in my own cartoony way.<\/p>\n<p><b>And you shot Relentless at the tail end of your pregnancy?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Yeah I shot it when I was pregnant a year ago, right before Everly was born.<\/p>\n<p><b>So you were 8 months pregnant and decided to shoot?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I needed to shoot something, I felt really like I knew I wasn&#8217;t going to be able to for at least six more months, which wasn&#8217;t true, I actually shot my first commercial when Everly was two months old. I felt antsy that I needed to get behind the camera and say something about the experience that I&#8217;ve been through in the last year which was just really far out, you know?<\/p>\n<p><b>Did you finish it before you had Everly?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>No I didn&#8217;t edit it until about six months until after she was born. I was busy, we traveled all over the world last year.<\/p>\n<p><b>When you did NU6 first did you intend to continue this on as a continuation?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Absolutely. I absolutely feel looking at Relentless that it\u2019s a perfect next chapter of sort of what happens next. I&#8217;m sort of battling with finding some terra firma.<\/p>\n<p><b>Have you already started thinking of your next one?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I have thought a little about the next one. I would like to be more prolific in being able to explore some personal things about myself. I&#8217;ve been really guarded most of my life. I felt I haven&#8217;t wanted to share that much and the truth is I&#8217;m such a sensitive person, but also such a deeply insensitive person in some ways. I can be very blunt and simple and direct about what I want. On the flip side, people like that they are actually very sensitive. I think now there&#8217;s definitely a higher level of sensitivity opened up in me in becoming a mother and it&#8217;s going to be fun to explore it creatively.<\/p>\n<p><b>If you could paint with only one color, what color would that be?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Blue. I think my favorite color is probably purple. But blue inspires me, it uplifts me. Sometimes I&#8217;ll see a blue house or a blue car and feel uplifted by it. I think it\u2019s a very beautiful color like a Chagall watercolor. I think blue is a very expressive color.<\/p>\n<p><b>Is Chagall someone you like a lot? People flying through the air seems appropriate . . .\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I love Chagall. And I associate him strongly with the architect Antoni Gaud\u00ed\u2013those kind of shapes and fragments. 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