Dear fellow art and film enthusiasts,
Today I put some of my money where my mouth is and pledged to support the film I Fell Silent on Kickstarter. Carson Lund is a film critic and filmmaker who writes a wonderful blog (arethehillsgoingtomarchoff) of film critisim I read and enjoy weekly, who along with his life long friend and co-directer Michael Basta are planning to make said film this coming spring.
All I ask of any reader is to look at their pitch on Kickstarter and think if you would like to see this project realized. What follows is some information from the directors on the film and examples of other work. The Kickstarter page is set up and scheduled with a funding deadline of February 24th 2012. If the funding goal is not reached by then, the film will not be produced. I would like to thank you for your time and consideration.
"I Fell Silent, is a dreamy horror/coming-of-age film in the stylistic vein of Claire Denis, Pedro Costa, Carlos Saura, Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Ingmar Bergman. The film will focus on the quotidian life of a young boy who dwells in a large mansion with his mother and grandmother, a home that has been passed down through family history. Part of the idea is to take some of the conventions of the horror genre and approach them from a strange angle, to render the "horror" - which is relatively mundane and universal to childhood - somewhat peripheral to the expression of a child gradually grasping at the broader world around him."
A few of Carson Lund's and Michael Basta's collaborations can be found online, please feel encouraged to check them out:
Wind Through the Cradle
Remedy in Phrases
Bardo
Congratulations to Carson Lund and Micheal Basta, as the funding all came through for I Fell Silent. Best of luck making it. I can't wait to see the finished product.
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