So I moved on. I made a couple of movies, I wrote several scripts, even sold a couple of pilot scripts for television. Over the last few years, the idea of making a feature film on mini-DV has become more realistic, more acceptable. The cameras capture lovely images that look a bit more like 16mm film than traditional video. Film festivals have totally accepted features originating on DV; in fact, the cinematography award at the Sundance festival went to DV features for two years running.
Summer of , hanging out with my friend, cinematographer Afshin Shahidi, I started thinking it was time to make a DV feature. Afshin owned a Panasonic DVX, the camera that many indie filmmakers were using, and he was certainly up for making a movie. My friend Eric Wilkinson agreed read his bio to learn more about him.
He has a strong background in TV production and home entertainment, and when he promised to help me put a project together if I could get the right script, my mind went straight to MFE. So he shopped the script around and indeed did get interest from some big directors, but they always wanted to change it.
We talked it over and I explained that not only did I want to make the movie just as it was written for creative reasons, I would have to keep it to one location for financial reasons. We saw the project eye-to-eye, and he agreed almost instantly to let me take the script and run with it. William Katt Art as Art. Alexis Thorpe Linda as Linda. Richard Riehle Dr. Will Gruber as Dr. Will Gruber. Robbie Bryan Officer as Officer. Richard Schenkman. More like this. Watch options.
Storyline Edit. From one of the acclaimed writers of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone comes a story that transcends both time and space Drama Fantasy Mystery Sci-Fi.
Not Rated. Did you know Edit. Trivia The whole movie was shot using 2 Panasonic DVX camcorders, which probably explains the overall grainy look of the film. Goofs at around 12 mins When discussing Columbus' journey John implies that there was still widespread belief that the earth was flat. In fact, since the time of the Greeks it had been relatively common educated knowledge that the earth was round. Columbus' error was in underestimating the diameter of the earth and thus the distance to Asia by a westerly route.
As a series of coincidences becomes fatal, Cecilia tries to prove that she is being persecuted by someone no one can see.
He is starting to improve his life for the better. However, her sense of reality is called into question when she begins to suspect that her deceased lover is not actually dead. After history Professor John Oldman unexpectedly resigns from the University, his startled colleagues impulsively invite themselves to his home, pressing him for an explanation.
What starts out as a friendly gathering soon builds to an unexpected and shattering climax. What do you think? But the timing was actually perfect. As of the first week of the month, we had the movie down to a very tight 84 minutes, and we had a cut with which I was very happy.
It seemed that the next thing to do would be to take a break and not look at the thing for a while, then show it to some trusted friends for their notes, and take another swing in April. Which is where we stand right now. Gary knew Carlo from the social scene, I believe. Gary, Carlo, Emerson, and I met soon after and traded thoughts about how to actually make the film.
I had suggestions for some small things to change, but I really did like the script as it was and thought we could make it independently for very little money. Just a big yawning silence where a movie was supposed to be. So I moved on. All of the movie takes place in a small house and its porch, where Oldman tells his friends that he is a 14, year old Cro-Magnon caveman. The movie begins with the protagonist John Oldman packing up his belongings onto his truck.
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