De Ce Monde Secret de l’ Amelie Americaine

Musee D’Orsay

Yesterday I walked to the Musee D’Orsay via Rue de Bac and Blvd. St. Germain. I got a lot of great footage of the artwork. Another filmmaker approached me and said that he had a camera just like mine and that he was asked to put it away. I didn’t see him carrying any cases. I think either he was just trying to make conversation or he was just fucking with me.

But I walked around with mine…right in the open. Security searched my bag before I entered the museum. The guard asked me what was it was and I told him honestly. He didn’t give me any problems. I had it out several times on the 1st “estage” I was quicker and more discreet on the 5th floor where there where the popular post-impressionists were hung. But no one told me to put it away.

At at the end of my visit I felt like I had gotten away with a great ruse. I walked back down St. Germain des Pres and imagined that the sirens wailing behind me were looking for me. Perhaps when they looked at me they didn’t see a cameraman, therefore they didn’t expect anything funny from me. I was just a girl with an expensive DV camera. Truly it might be a statement about my professional life all together. To look at me you would never know that I’ve been the places and met the people I have. I use it to my advantage. I am not threatening therefore I don’t get the interference as much as others might. I also don’t get taken as seriously as others do…so it is a trade off.

My only regret from my visit to the Musee D’Orsay is that that the second floor was closed with all of the art nouveau and artwork by the artist named Klimts.

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