I directed the video for ‘Local Celebrity’ by Wetsuit . Allison had hours of footage from her Bat Mitzvah in 2004 and the idea was that we would recreate it now in 2023 and cut the two events together seamlessly. We watched through all the footage from 2004 noting about 40 shots which had specific movements or content that could create a seamless match cut and I put that into a few minutes of footage I could reference on the day, most of which made it into the final cut.
With the original footage being shot on VHS, I shot the new footage on VHS as well. A lot of dedicated pals came out for what was essentially a party with instructions. The editing process was fairly simple since the cuts had been preplanned.
At Allison’s original Bat Mitzvah, they actually forgot to do the Hora so we made a point to include it in the climax of our version of the party.
