Vogue Giambri is a playwright, director, Jazz Baroness, and un-diagnosed poet. Vogue obtained her BA at The New College in Literary Research & Theatre, the place she instantly made pals with the Jazz College and dove head first into the music scene in New York. Writing performs and poetry, and performing her writing with stay jazz in venues like Cornelia Avenue theater and Three of Cups. In 2018, she moved to London to pursue her Masters at Central St Martins’ Drama Heart the place her play ‘ROBBED’ premiered on the Arcola Theater. In January 2021, Vogue made the transfer to movie and to Los Angeles, CA. Within the final yr and a half she has written, directed, and produced three brief movies: ‘Are there bobcats in New Jersey?’ which was a Vimeo Employees Decide 2022, ‘You Destroy Every part’ a lesbian horror movie, and a brief movie primarily based on a chunk from her upcoming poetry e book ‘Nothing Left To Destroy’ each of that are in post-production and set to be completed this Fall. She additionally made a skate movie the place she satisfied professional skaters to write down and browse poems they wrote over their clips referred to as “What number of kickflips I gotta do so that you can love me?”
‘The Jazz of Our Lives’ is her first enterprise into the style movie world, a reminiscence jazz poem following a relationship that thrives on combating. The movie options the archives of streetwear manufacturers COME TEES and Frankies Bikinis.
Lauren Fern: Hello my long-distance lover, cannot imagine we lastly get to showcase this venture of ours. Thanks a lot for bringing me alongside for the experience and tossing me within the ocean. At any time when I work with you I really feel fearless and I really feel like a rockstar, it is all the time a lot enjoyable. Let’s get into these questions and at last give everybody a glimpse into your jazzy thoughts. Why did you title it “Jazz of our Lives”? The place did it come from?
Vogue Giambri: I like you, I hate you, you are drama, you make me comfortable, you break my life, yada yada yada, however on the finish of the day you would be bored with out the jazz of our lives. I am unsure it is a common factor. Perhaps it is only a me factor. I am positive it isn’t. My finest buddy texted me after seeing the primary minimize and mentioned one thing like “it makes me hopeful and confused.” I like that. I wish to make folks really feel two conflicting emotions as a result of that is the story of my life and the story I would like to speak proper now so I can perceive it.
Lauren: Who or what evokes you??
Vogue: Frank O’Hara. Artwork Blakey & the Jazz Messengers. Curtis Fuller. Sam Shepard. ‘Moby Dick’. ‘The Image of Dorian Grey’. Skateboarding. Being on the ocean. Paris. The theaters in London. Strangers. New York Metropolis. YOU.
Lauren: Do you imagine in love?
Vogue: I do not know however after I was watching David Lynch’s ‘Wild at Coronary heart’ the opposite night time, I used to be considering to myself; “Wow this film actually illustrates love and fervour.” And for a second I used to be like have I ever been in love? Will I ever discover love? And I had a flashback of being wild and in love with my ex-boyfriend in London and I actually cry gasped out loud for 15 seconds and moved on like. Okay. Effective. So perhaps? Generally I do not belief my reminiscence.
Lauren: How would you describe your private fashion? How do you specific what you are feeling by means of your private fashion?
Vogue: *laughs* My fashion is just about your character in “Jazz of Our Lives.” Once we had been dressing you everybody was saying ‘okay so principally it is simply Vogue’. In my fantasy, it is like I wanna really feel like a sizzling skater chick who steals her boyfriend’s garments. I wished the movie to have that feeling of sharing garments prefer it’s their love language.
Lauren: What was your favourite reminiscence engaged on ‘Jazz of Our Lives’?
Vogue: While you acquired thrown into the ocean despite the fact that you possibly can’t swim AND get sea sick. *laughs* Everybody was like “Vogue are you positive you wish to make her do that?” like I used to be some monster. I am like “Don’t be concerned she WANTS to do that”. After which once we had Will strip nearly bare and leap into the freezing ocean ready to avoid wasting your life whenever you get thrown overboard. So enjoyable. I’ll always remember it. The climate was excellent. the solar. the oceans. Ugh.
Lauren: What’s your largest dream as a filmmaker?
Vogue: I wish to get to do no matter I would like and picture. The place I can hand pluck 10 of the perfect jazz musicians on the earth. Put them collectively. Have them compose an unsettling love music. Write a movie impressed by it. Have it happen on the moon. Get Angelina Jolie to play my mom. Animate a portion of it like a princess online game. After which have fun by throwing an enormous celebration, open bar, SZA performing, pink carpet premiere, even when the movie is just a few minutes lengthy.
Lauren: The place do you are feeling most impressed?
Vogue: Strolling.
Lauren: What completely pisses you off?
Vogue: After I go to dwelling and I flip into a bit child once more and act in ways in which I spent a very long time engaged on not performing like.
Lauren: What scares you probably the most about being an artist?
Vogue: Properly my favourite factor about being an artist is having the ability to collaborate with anybody. So I suppose what scares me, and it isn’t a rational thought, is that nobody will wish to collaborate with me anymore and that I suck.
Lauren: How do you normally recover from writers block?
Vogue: Go for a very lengthy stroll. Smoke pots. Cry. Attempt to write down what I see or scent or hear and it normally turns right into a tangent that turns into one thing else.
Lauren: What’s your favourite film?
Vogue: ‘Fats Lady’ by Catherine Breillat. Or ‘YiYi’ by Edward Yang. Or most not too long ago ‘Official Competitors’ by Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat, and clearly ‘Wild at Coronary heart’ by David Lynch.
Lauren: Why this model? And why a trend movie as a substitute of merely one other narrative brief?
Vogue: I am such a theater nerd however for some cause, loads of my pals are in trend and I have been round trend in New York Metropolis and round Parsons and I all the time felt like I did not match into the scene or that I could not slot in or wasn’t cool sufficient or did not know sufficient, so I kinda have been a fly on the wall about it attempting to determine my means in. Then I knew I wished to make a movie and I am fortunate that I acquired to make this movie with all of my actually good pals. I believe COME TEES is basically punk and one thing I’d put on to make myself really feel sizzling after I went skating. I spotted the liberty in trend movies and I simply made a movie filled with my obsessions and fantasies.
