‘Jackie’
Directed.Produced.Filmed by Mollie Moore
In Production
I met Jackie Ferrara at a dance class in Manhattan back in 2017. At the time Jackie was approaching the final years of her eighties and I was in my early twenties. Jackie is an artist from New York City, Soho’s 1970's artist movement that created some of the most influential artist’s and work coming from the city to this day.
After meeting Jackie, we continued to go for pizza and a can of Coca Cola every few weeks in the streets of Soho. I would sit and listen to her for hours as she told me stories of the past. She would describe a New York that no longer existed, the dances that she would attend at the famous ‘The Electric Circus’ on St Marks Place. The creative minds that once surrounded her and of her home, Detroit in a state of apartheid back in the 1920’s and 30’s.
Whilst the pandemic raged throughout New York’s streets, Jackie resided in the confinements of her Soho loft apartment she purchased back in the 1950’s. It is here, in her isolation that memories lost from her past began to come back to her and I began to film our conversations.
Within the conversations and musings shared between two women, at different points of their life, the film explores memory, creation and loss.
