Petey & Ginger – A Testament To The Awesomeness Of Mankind, A Film By Ada Bligaard Søby
Premieres At SF DocFest June 10th
Director Statement:
‘Petey & Ginger’ is a film about the time we live in more than it is about two people in particular. The two characters have willingly and generously let me use their life stories to create an abstract portrait of a broken culture. The film is a celebration of survival, music, companionship and chaos.
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When the global economy collapses the only true victors are those that weren’t invited to the boom. Petey plays in a band and works in a pornography warehouse, packing and shipping sex paraphernalia to customers all over the world. Ginger works the late night shift in a bar as a fortune-teller to those who have been hit hard by the financial crisis.
Living on opposite coasts of America and both friends of the filmmaker, both their stories begin with their respective escapes from difficult childhoods. The film weaves voices and images, seeking to reveal how in-between people are hanging on in today’s America, desiring and dreaming in a no-man’s-land, but now adapted to the lack of hope.
“Petey & Ginger” is a personal take on individual crisis vs. collective crisis, and what happens when the two overlap. In their narrative, we experience a broken culture exposing a wasteland of shattered economic dreams and unfulfilled social promises; a reality that only music and friendship float freely above.
BIOGRAPHY – ADA BLIGAARD SØBY
Born in Denmark in 1975. Grew up in a community of historians in a 16th century renaissance castle north of Copenhagen, Denmark. Has two parents and four brothers, three of them half African.
Moved to New York at age twenty to study at School of Visual Arts, but ended up waitressing in nightclubs instead. Later she assisted fashion photographer Terry Richardson around the time when he was making the ‘Terryworld’ book, and made motorcycle trips around the US with her camera and boyfriend. After four years in New York City, she moved back to Denmark and became a member of the Copenhagen based filmmaker collective Super 16. Is a self taught filmmaker and photographer. Exhibits photography and video art at Brachfeld gallery in Paris and has shot documentaries for Nordic and International broadcasters in the US, China, Russia, Singapore, Finland and England. Has received several working grants from The Danish State Arts Foundation and won one (!) award once: Best Danish Doc in 2010 at CPH:DOX Film Festival.
FILMOGRAPHY
‘I AM READING A GUNS’N’ROSES BIOGRAPHY, BUT I’M DRINKING FROM AN IRON MAIDEN CUP’ 2013 (in production)
‘FUCK FOREVER’ 2013 (in production)
‘PETEY & GINGER’ 2012
‘MASTER CHEN LIVES ON 88 LUCKY STREET’ 2010
‘THE NAKED OF SAINT PETERSBURG’ 2010
‘COMPLAINTS CHOIR’ 2009
‘BLACK HEART’ 2008
‘MEET ME IN BERLIN’ 2007
‘AMERICAN LOSERS’ 2006
‘USA IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER’ 2004
‘ROME, NY’ 2003
Links
Petey & GInger Website
Petey & Ginger Facebook