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First Name

Lisa

Last Name

Salem

Country

United States of America

City/Town/Village

Country (secondary)

Email

lisa@walklawithme.com

Statement

After 10 years living in Los Angeles, I set out to walk the whole of the city pushing a baby-stroller with a DV camera attached to the end of it, facing inward. When people approached me I invited them to walk with me while I filmed our conversations. Perhaps because the aim was to deliberately have no agenda for what we spoke about, those conversations quickly became intimate, poignant and personal. Walk LA With Me is a project in two parts. The first – the walk itself – was a blog that went viral, beginning a dialogue with people all over the world. The second is a feature-film portrait of LA (now in post-production) constructed from the conversations with the people I walked with and other things I saw and heard on the road.