Buckingham wants to make people uncomfortable and to "get them to talk about things they wouldn't talk about otherwise," and she definitely succeeds. Her footage is not just controversial, but artistic; she wouldn't be able to produce such visceral reactions in her viewers unless her editing and her images weren't replete with talented editorial decisions and craftsmanship with her camera.
While future plans include a year in Brazil to shoot a thesis, practice Portuguese and have a lot of fun, hopefully under a Harvard sponsorship umbrella, Buckingham is fine where she is now, mostly in the basement of Sever, recombining the stories in her memory for other people to see.
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