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As you probably noticed last week, I spent only $307 to shoot this film. A little more after that for film festivals that are nonsensically expensive in this country.
The next three clips lean in to the delusion and tenderness of the dynamic set up in the earlier part in the film.
@scottpatrickwilson making out with himself was taken from Chekhov. He’s playing two roles at once, hence the mirror (metaphor).
The text on the black screen is a conversation without images that, in my opinion, still achieves a deep cinematic feeling. This technique appears several times throughout the film.
The third clip is taken from a film project
@boliverb and I made during the pandemic. We posted about it, but it was a “quiet release” thing too: long form episodic, trapped at home, direction-less conversations, etc.
My narrations in terrible Kiwi dialect were mostly improvised. I figured if R.Pat could get away with his dialect silliness in ‘The Lighthouse’ then so could I… a few martinis really helped convince me that I was correct. That and the fact that I’m playing a character, a version of myself, the director, walking you through the film and planting ideas in your mind that may not be immediately obvious.
Ultimately, this is a film about love, not hate. I only use that word in the title to convince audiences to watch. Cinema’s ideas are failed by cinema’s actuality, by its innate failure in communicating those ideas with resonant truth. Ideas are beyond light, sound, and motion; but these are the tools we have chosen, so cinema is born again and again in the light.
These clips star
@scottpatrickwilson and
@boliverb , two of my very closest and favorite friends/collaborators. This film would not exist without them, much less contain any amount of intrigue.
