Ingrid Veninger

“My work’s been rooted in a documentary aesthetic, which is also due to limitations in time and money. I like small, homegrown, homemade, handmade, artisanal, organic process-oriented films made by people like Cassavetes. I’ve always loved the direct cinema/cinema verité movement, and the work of the Maysles brothers and Wiseman’s films—I love the observational aesthetic. I just never really had an opportunity to practice it in such a focused way, but school does that.”