Sundance
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“A Fantastical Perversion of Pregnancy”: Director Danny Perez | Antibirth
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? It seemed to me that the story was centered around an outsider, someone who lived a destructive […]
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“The Limits of Love in Friendship”: Director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte | As You Are
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? I think As You Are from the outside is obviously a story about friendship and love. Specifically […]
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“They Shared Their Vulnerabilities and Unfiltered Selves on Camera”: Director Clay Tweel | Gleason
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? The making of this movie was a huge process of exploration for me. Steve had captured 1,300 […]
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“The Strength and Drive of Female Ambition”: Director Meera Menon | Equity
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? With Equity, we were seeking to tell a story about the strength and drive of female ambition […]
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Experience Designing a Surrealist Museum: Loïc Suty on The Unknown Photographer
Receiving its U.S. premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in the New Frontier section is Loic Suty’s The Unknown Photographer, the sole work that blew my mind just a couple of months earlier at Montreal’s RIDM. It’s an incredible, immersive Oculus Rift project inspired by the discovery of a photo album in the Laurentians north of Montreal. Suty’s piece takes us on a WWI photographer’s journey both familiar and foreign, equal parts timely and timeless. Filmmaker spoke with the Montreal-based “experience designer” prior to the piece’s Park City premiere. Filmmaker: So I believe this project originated with an actual […]
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“Why Is This Film So Angry?”: Director J.T. Mollner | Outlaws and Angels
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? On the surface, Outlaws is a family drama and well as revenge film with a female empowerment […]
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“A Beloved Charming Guy with a Dark Side”: Director Steven Caple Jr. | The Land
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? On surface you see a film about four boys who are trying to escape their troubled circumstances, […]
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“Acceptance Remains Elusive for Gender Non-Conforming People”: Director Jason Benjamin | Suited
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? When I first contacted Rae Tutera with the hope of making a documentary about Bindle and Keep, we […]
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“That Feeling of Director’s Guilt”: Director Diego Luna | Mr. Pig
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? There are many secrets around this script and how the story was formed… I will take those […]
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Sundance Dispatch 5: Weiner and Holy Hell
I watch the local news a lot. It’s a fun, seemingly randomized mash-up of crimes caught on security cameras, traffic and weather updates, forced banter, cooking segments, deep concerns about marijuana use and “reporting” that’s thinly-veiled support for the NYPD, etc. Sometimes you see a story and wonder whether it’ll remain tristate fodder or leap to the national agenda: e.g., I wondered that when the stairwell shooting of Akai Gurley was first reported, and I was equally uncertain when Anthony Weiner’s 2013 run for NYC mayor was derailed by the “Carlos Danger” sexting “scandal.” It seemed like an OK joke but not much […]
