Sundance Responses

“DOUCHEBAG” | co-writer-director, Drake Doremus

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 22, 8:00 pm — Racquet Club, Park City] The shooting of this movie was insane. We shot three different times over the course of almost two years. The first time we worked with an outline and the actors completely improvising from that outline. The second time we had some scripted scenes, and the third time we went in completely scripted. With all that shooting I had a crazy amount of material to work with, and it was really hard to cut certain scenes that I loved. The hardest decision was because we shot so much, I […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 19, 2010 Sundance Responses
“LIFE 2.0? | director, Jason Spingarn-Koff

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 22, 2:30 pm — Library Center Theatre, Park City] Do I need permission to film that person? In my previous documentaries, the answer was always clear: get a signed release form. But this film was set in a different world: a virtual world called Second Life, populated solely by digital avatars. Was this a game or a place governed by the laws of the real world? To make things more complicated, most “residents” (as the users call themselves) fiercely guard their real identities, adopting fanciful new names, ethnicities, nationalities, genders, even species. Asking for a resident’s […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 19, 2010 Sundance Responses
“RESTREPO” | directors, Sebastian Junger & Tim Hetherington

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Thursday, Jan. 21, 9:30 pm — Eccles Theatre, Park City] Our goal in making Restrepo, a documentary about soldiers at a remote outpost in Afghanistan, was to give viewers the experience of a 90-minute deployment. We had no difficult decisions, per se, but we did have important ones. First and foremost, we decided that our cameras would never leave the soldiers. We would not interview generals or diplomats; we would not return to the United States to talk to the families. We would limit ourselves to what the soldiers had access to and nothing more. Finally our film […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 19, 2010 Sundance Responses
“THE WORKS OF MICHAEL JOAQUIN GREY” | director, Joaquin Grey

New Frontier Performances and Installations [PREMIERE SCREENING: Thursday, Jan. 21, 3:00 pm — New Frontier on Main, Park City] Not filming anything, I developed software that breaks down film as video into its basic primitives — the building blocks of media. I take body signals and sound to reanimate and dematerialize existing media and create film objects and “dream anatomies” of our familiar media body. These computational cinema works are not recorded; they are generated as the viewer experiences the work in real time. The works synchronize with your own body to create new synesthetic experiences.

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 19, 2010 Sundance Responses
“BIG FAN” writer-director, Robert Siegel

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 8:00 pm — Racquet Club, Park City] Big Fan was edited on the biggest, awesomest computer monitor I’ve ever been in a room with. Thirty inches. As big as it was, though, it still wasn’t nearly enough. That 30-inch monitor was just a tease, whetting my appetite to see my movie on something bigger — like 800 inches. A movie screen. I don’t care what the trends are. What massive, fundamental sea changes are taking place within the industry. No filmmaker fantasizes about what their movie will look like projected onto a 1.5 inch iPod […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009 Sundance Responses
“BLACK DYNAMITE” co-writer-director, Scott Sanders

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 11:30 pm — Library Center Theatre, Park City] With Black Dynamite, we wanted to make a blaxploitation movie that was as close to a 1974 blaxploitation movie as you could make in 2009. We wanted to emphasize humor, but we didn’t want to go too far outside of the strict boundaries of the genre. For us, the humor comes out in how anachronistic it all is. Everything is exposed; the clunky structure of the plots, the huge tonal shifts that can occur within a scene from one moment to another, and the desire to please […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009 Sundance Responses
“ARLEN FABER” writer-director, John Hindman

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 5:15 pm — Racquet Club, Park City] Although technology may have shortened the average person’s patience over the past few years I believe that storytelling should never rush to keep up. It is true that we live in an increasingly fast culture. Our communication demands that our lives be summed up with only as much information as will fit on a Facebook profile. We don’t invite, we e-vite. We don’t talk, we type. And we quit sharing and started blogging. Don’t get me wrong. Many of these things are totally cool. But I think that […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009 Sundance Responses
“DON’T LET ME DROWN” co-writer-director, Cruz Angeles

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 12:15 pm — Eccles Theatre, Park City] Not all, but the majority of short-form works on the Net are gimmicky and instant pleasures — like candy. I am not interested in making candy. I want my works to be a full meal — a story that keeps ringing in your head, something that sticks and stays with you for a very long time. Cinema will falter for a bit but will not die. I believe the new developments are supplementary and not replacements of long-form work. When [co-writer] Maria Topete and I were writing Don’t […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009 Sundance Responses
“CRUDE” director, Joe Berlinger

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 6:00 pm — Temple Theatre, Park City] As someone who believes in making non-fiction feature films for the big screen, Crude is in many ways a reaction against some of the forces affecting cinema today. From a craft standpoint, Crude is steeped in the traditions of cinema vérité filmmaking that I have embraced throughout my career — it’s a film with a great deal of complexity and nuance, requiring a viewer’s full attention in order to appreciate all that I hope it has to offer. While new forms of distribution are important for independent filmmakers […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009 Sundance Responses
“THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD” co-director, Mike Bonanno

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 2:30 pm — Library Center Theatre, Park City] If one postulates that money is the root of all evil, logic dictates that with the collapse of capitalism filmmaking, all other forms of art and expression will represent the forces of good in the universe. Hard times call for hard filmmaking. Being that the forces affecting cinema affect our everyday economic reality, it’s only fitting that our film would herald the global economic meltdown. The death of capitalism is going to mean a very different kind of filmmaking in the near future. Being that money is […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009 Sundance Responses

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