Still Kicking (film)

Still Kicking: Six Artistic Women of Project Arts & Longevity is a 2006 32-minute documentary film by Pacific Grove filmmaker Greg Young, featuring six Bay Area women role models over 85 years old who remained artistically active. The catalyst for Young's film was Amy Gorman and Frances Kandl's Project Arts & Longevity through which they were exploring the link between longevity and artistic vitality.[1] Along with the film the joint project resulted in a book entitled Aging Artfully.[2]

Still Kicking: Six Artistic Women of Project Arts & Longevity
Original movie poster
Directed byGreg Young
Produced byGolden Bear Casting
StarringAmy Gorman
Frances Kandl
Frances Catlett
Elsie Ogata
Ann Davlin
Grace Gildersleeve
Madeline Mason
Lily Hearst
Release date
  • July 19, 2006 (2006-07-19)
Running time
35 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Still Kicking's first festival screening was at the 2006 Real to Reel Film Festival in North Carolina. The film was also selected for screening by the 2006 Independents' Film Festival, the 2006 Port Townsend Film Festival, the 2007 Missouri International Film Festival, and the 2007 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

In 2003 Young produced his first documentary called "Do You Know Yellowlegs is a Storytelling Museum?"[3] on the Oakland storyteller Orunamamu, known for her flamboyant attire which included yellow "psychedelic spandex leggings"[4] Gorman had interviewed Orunamamu as part of the Project and the film caught their attention.[1] When the three met, Young asked if he could document their process.

They said yes, so he began his own series of interviews with some of the women. Over six months, he shot about 40 hours of tape, then spent many more months editing and shaping it into the 32-minute film. It includes music composed by Kandl. Young, who is 59 and retired as a design director in university relations at University of California-Berkeley, said his interest is in doing character-driven documentaries. This project fell right in line with that, he said.

— Moore 2006

Citations
  1. Moore 2006.
  2. Gorman 2009.
  3. Young 2003.
  4. Cousineau 2002.
gollark: There are many things people should know. But some of them school is effectively unable to teach, and others really should be easy to learn independently for competent sane people.
gollark: These are difficult skills. Do you think they will be taught well by an adult not selected much for it in an environment which generally pushes conformity?
gollark: No, this is an awful idea.
gollark: I mean, they could have been if people used cars in different ways, but they didn't.
gollark: They weren't that practical until modern lithium-ion batteries existed.

References
  • Cousineau, Phil (September 15, 2002), "The Grace of Great Things", Coincidence Or Destiny? Stories of Synchoronicity That Illuminate Our Lives, Conari Press, p. 324, ISBN 157324824X Foreword by Robert A. Johnson
  • Gorman, Amy W. (2009), Aging Artfully, PAL Publishing, ISBN 9780978519209
  • Young, Greg (2003), Do you know yellowlegs is a storytelling museum?, Golden Bear Casting
  • Moore, Brenda (September 24, 2006), The art of aging: Documentary, book show older women 'still kicking', Monterey-Herald



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