Friday 22 February 2013

the river, 16mm



i shot this more than a year ago.

recently it became part of the official selection at a french film festival that isn't cannes. rendering the mention of any film-festival-success irrelevant. (i won't allude to the other festival selection in amsterdam then...) and i would loved to have shown you, but enough time has passed for me to view the film objectively (rather than as a child i spent months nurturing). honestly? it's terrible.

you'd be more productive racing raindrops down your window, attempting to make creme caramel, or dancing in your underwear (wait that is always productive).

and yes, that alien is wearing a snuggie®.

edit — it just got into another two film festivals, so if you want to see it, you can here:

festival du film d'altkirch (i have no idea either) 12-14th april
international short film festival of barcelona 18-22nd april

edit — this ended up screening at over 24 film festivals, but none cannes so my life still isn't complete.

18 comments

  1. The images look amazing! Do you have a link?

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  2. "yes, that alien is wearing a snuggie" needs to be put in the director's commentary

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    1. totally forgot about DVD commentaries! along with the 8-hour director's cut of the film.

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  3. These pictures are waaay too awesome. And the alien photo is a masterpiece. I think I'll just print it and stick it to my wall.

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    1. thank you sincerely! if you ever need a high-res for print... wait you were just flattering me. *goes back to eating ramen*

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  4. Anonymous10:17

    awesome !!
    - your fan from finland

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  5. Anonymous16:35

    I want to see that film so badly, those photos are amazing.

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    1. thank you! i'll make another one i can show to the world ha-ha.

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  6. i want to see this! any film festival success is awesome!

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  7. I want to see this too! It looks incredible - and aliens would be 10000x cooler if they all wore snuggies, seriously x

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    1. they do. they invented snuggies. when you wear them you become one of them. i'm just throwing these government secrets away today.

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  8. would definitely watch it. is it up for downloading?

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    1. never! (maybe one day). maybe one day when everything in our lives are automatically connected to the world wide web wow that would suck.

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  9. Aleksandra21:11

    a film about jumping into lakes and aliens sounds too good to talk about that way (no, really...)

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  10. oh but I'm dying to see this !! :(
    x

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