A new short, and Festivus news!
So I’m off to India next week, and in a bout of midnight inspiration, I’ve decided to shoot a short film whilst there. Two days, two actors, a vague concept, and a ton of improvisation.
My forays into particle physics and mathematics have inspired a short story about what it takes to leave our galaxy. There’s a huge spiritual component to it, as the energy required to transport an entire human being to a distant, habitable planet in another galaxy (see the exciting news regarding the Kepler Planets) is something short of a supernova. We’d need to travel at the speed of light (or faster, like a neutrino or tachyon) to cover such distance, and to do so would require us to relieve ourselves of all mass. Hence the importance of discovering the Higgs Boson, which is a theoretical particle that has no discernible mass.
Believe it or not, I’ve concocted a very sweet love story around this concept, the base idea being that the only thing that can match the energy of a supernova is a first kiss. I know, I’m a hopeless romantic.
When universes collide.
I’ve packed up my 7D, a Zoom H4N audio recorder, two lav mics, a portable handheld mount, a gorilla tripod, a small, battery powered LED panel, five 32gb memory cards and a 1TB external drive. That’s it. Fits nicely into one little bag, and that’s all the infrastructure that I’m taking with me. I’ve already corresponded with a few actor friends in Mumbai and they’re up for the challenge. Zero-budget filmmaking at its finest.
This is exciting. Like shooting Lilith in Cleveland, I’ve got the entirety of India as my location, as I’ll be in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and the Maldives. The beauty of the 7D is that I can shoot on the fly, and even in a pickle I can shoot on my cell phone if need be.
So now I need to hunker down and hammer out the basic skeleton of a script, and get it to my actors as soon as possible. I’ll keep updating the progress.
Also, tickets to see the world premiere of Lilith at the Festivus Film Festival have gone on sale. If you’re going to be in the Denver area on January 14th, stop on by. The festival is also going to be doing a cool giveaway of one of our beautiful Lilith posters. I had it giclée printed on museum quality, heavy-stock art paper and signed it. And it’s HUGE - 30x40. Definitely a keeper. Find everything you need here.
The unfortunate news is that I will not be there for the screening - I will indeed be in India - *sigh* - but the much better result of that unfortunate event is that the lovely and talented Julia Voth will be at the screening and handling the Q&A. I’m pretty sure people would rather see her than some nerdy Indian director…
