We spoke to Raven Jackson about the importance of sound, patience, and the process of making her spectacular feature debut. Read on for our interview
The Big Picture If there is one feature debut that will end up being one of the most memorable of this year or any other, it's Raven Jackson's emotional epic of small moments that is All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt.
RAVEN JACKSON: Yeah, it was a multitude of things. I knew I wanted to explore the life of a Black woman in the South and I wanted to do so in a very fluid way. It took me a while to come to the page though. I had to feel the film, the world of the film, before I could come to the page and write anything. That came in me taking photographs of landscapes, of family members. And then eventually I did start to write what I call portraits, the different scenes in the film for different ages.
Yeah, I worked with the amazing Lee Chatametikool who has experience working in more fluid films and films that break structure in ways. I was very involved and, in some moments, I really looked at the cut, like a cut between scenes, as almost like a line break in a poem, you know? There's a reason this scene is here coming next. One of the reasons I was really drawn to working with Lee is that he has deep experience working in sound design as well.
100 percent. I find I need that space with the cut because there are questions you have at the end of the day. Then, after two days of sitting with it, it's like, ‘of course it's not that’ or ‘of course it is’ or ‘no, it needs this actually.’ Sometimes I just need space to come to that because you're so in it. But I love re-watching things. My producers make fun of me because I always say I need to sit with it. Time is very key for me to process it.
I don't want to get too into specifics about the ending, but it feels like this perfect moment where all of the time is brought together. Was that something that you always had envisioned for it or did the process of making it change it in any way?
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