Ondi Timons Don’t sit around. She prepared a documentary function about the Nazis in Budapest when she found out that her house had burned down in the Altadena fire. And she continued to shoot. Now more than ever she realizes that home is her work. And surely enough, when she returned to Altadena and began to deal with the many things (insurance, rebuilding), she continued to record her life. That’s who she is.
She wasn’t really done with her latest short, ”All the walls came down“When we talked about Zoom from her new excavations in Joshua Tree.” Although everything I have created, most of my archives are gone, I can still go and do something else now that is new, “she said.” I suck refuge in the stories I tell, they helped me order chaos and find the silver lining. When I have to do with trauma, I record it, so that one day I can do something, make lemonade of lemons. If I do not record and have the thing to exercise that form of alchemy, there is not even an option. So I’m lucky enough to have friends who have cameras, and I had a couple of cameras with me. I dropped so many cameras, such as lentils and stands and all my lighting, but I had a pair of cameras in the suitcase because I was in Europe. ”
Timons shocked themselves with the editing speed. “I’ve really never edited anything so fast,” she said. “It just came to fly out. It shocked my entire team.” She handed in the short late, far past the deadline, but festival director Julie Huntsinger accepted it anyway. Now Timons are rushing to end it on time. “All the walls came down” premiere on Sunday.
The toughest moment for Timons was to land in LA and not be able to go home. “I was in real state,” she said. “And it was tough, but I knew film because of “Last flight home.”“That movie was an intimate (and healing) family crown of her father’s death of euthanasia.
Timons began filming their collapsed as well as his brother and handed out to their neighbors. “Here we are all in this pile,” she said, “and I process and try to know it all. What will all this come about? And what is it about? What can I learn about this as someone in the middle of it, go through it myself, which I can share with other people?”
When we talk, Timons realize that she wants to add the last picture she ever took in the house. She is still a hassle with the editing. “Many of us will have to deal with this (the climate crisis) at some level,” she said, “whether it is floods or fire or earthquake. The climate is not happy.”
When Timons talked to her neighbors, she realized that she came from a relative place for privilege. “We’re all underpinned,” she said. “They still have not paid me to my property boundaries, although I literally lost all the property I insured. They also owe us money for the rent. They have not paid any of it. The reality is that I am a functioning director who has made films that people care about, at least to some extent, which I can survive right now.”
Altadena residents and activist Heavenly Hughes from my tribal rise said to Timons: “You moved into a black society, we are not a priority.” Timons were shocked. “I felt such a white blindness,” she said. “How naive I am to think that because I pay my taxes, I expect a fire truck, rescue services, at least to evacuate my neighbors and my community, but there was nothing. And now it has been proven.”
Timoners West Altadena -Quarter did not get fire trucks. Her mother’s closer center did.
So Timons started filming their neighbors. “Everyone has different circumstances, even though we live in the same place, even though we walk our dogs down the same street and love the same peacocks and love the same city,” she said. “We shared a deep love for Altadena. When the title of the film came to me is that the walls came down and these relationships have bloomed, just like the grass that runs out of the ground, despite all this, you will see a new growth. The garden we create, it is a society that is determined to maintain its integrity in the face of a massive feature.
“All the walls came down” shows that all insurance is not created equally. A family in the film was about to lose everything, but heavenly hughes and others are fighting back. “There are people living in their cars, who were not homeless,” Timons said. “There are people who have lived there for decades and decades, who have lost all their generational assets, and they need help right now. It is an urgent situation, and that is something we read in the news and such, but the power of the film is to take the audience under the headings, to actually meet the people who live there, who go through what they go through.”
Timons are looking for a distributor and will give all profits against Altadena’s recovery. The film opens on Glendale Laemmle on September 12 for a qualified run, complete with a birthday celebration for Hughes.
