Sundance Responses

“GROWN UP MOVIE STAR” | writer-director, Adriana Maggs

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 22, 6:45 pm — Broadway Centre Cineams, Salt Lake City] Casting the central role of Ruby was really tough. In my mind Ruby was a scary mix of too young and too sexy, even in her appearance. I wanted to create a tension and innocence of youth conflicting with too much skin. I wanted someone from Newfoundland, someone wild, messy, damaged and young. I wanted her to have physical flaws, like maybe not perfect teeth, something physical that would put a definite wall between herself and her dreams of stardom. Shawn loved Tatiana and wanted her […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 22, 2010 Sundance Responses
“THE TUNNEL” | writer-director, Jenna Bass

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 22, 12:00 pm — Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City] Never a truer word. We had a scene — it was my favorite in the film. It was one of those scenes which didn’t necessarily drive the film on a plot level but was essential to the feel and the magic. Like everything, it was shot in a huge rush. When it came to the editing, we tried everything to make it work, but eventually we had to admit: It was bad. There was no way the scene was going to cut it. There was no way […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 22, 2010 Sundance Responses
“LOURDES” | writer-director, Jessica Hausner

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 22, 2:30 pm — Prospector Square Theatre, Park City] For Lourdes the hardest decision was whether to make the film at all. This decision was so hard because I found the subject very ambivalent and difficult to treat. I wanted to tell a story like a fairytale but I didn’t want to make a naive film. I wanted to question religion and faith but I also really wanted to know and learn more about both without, on the other hand, being too soft with the Catholic Church. I wanted to make a film in Lourdes that […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 22, 2010 Sundance Responses
“DADDY LONGLEGS” | co-writers-directors, Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 22, 8:30 am — Prospector Square Theatre, Park City] Jeesh, the amount of decisions that go into making a movie… the words “the amount” are so heavy because the list is heavy, breathing is a decision, but to quantify them seems like the scariest task with such a daunting overhead. Of course the best decisions are the ones that you don’t have to make but are forced into. During Daddy Longlegs, we were so preoccupied with constantly providing stimuli from the writing process all the way through editing: for ourselves, for the actors, the non-actors, the […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 22, 2010 Sundance Responses
“THE END” | Ragnar Kjartansson

[New Frontier Performances and Installations] When it comes to shooting one is faced with endless decisions. I make them like when playing a computer game or making music — really quick and without too much thinking. I make up my mind really fast just so I won’t lose my cool with my crew. Afterward I think, “What the hell was that decision?” But then in retrospect it usually works out well. Instinct is the only thing an artist can truly trust when it comes to those decisions. If the vision is clear then instinct will follow.

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 21, 2010 Sundance Responses
“THE CLOUD MIRROR” | Eric Gradman

[New Frontier Performances and Installations] The Cloud Mirror is a technological exploration of how our online standards of privacy and tact contrast so dramatically with those standard in the real world. When building The Cloud Mirror, I had to consider whether I felt comfortable taking people’s information from Facebook and Twitter and splashing it on their faces in a real public space for all to see. I found I felt uncomfortable with invading people’s privacy in this way, even though they themselves had made the information public. In fact I discovered people who post their “relationship status”” publicly on Facebook […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 20, 2010 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

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