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- On-site in Southampton, GB
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Description
Start on-site:
April 25, 2017 at 11:00 am (local time at project's location)
Time to spend on-site:
6
hours
in 1 day
Experience Level: Entry
Estimated project duration: 1 day or less
Sun Shines Bright is a 20 minute chamber drama that explores ideas of narcissism, self-destruction, pharmaceuticals and the search for the unattainable. A Rivettean examination of the performative nature of relationships, personal identity and a social construct of an exterior 'identity' and how this is in-turn intertwined with our perceptions of others. The film is written and directed by award-winning journalist and author James Slaymaker. The finished product will be featured on the popular online film journal MUBI Notebook and submitted to festivals including TIFF Wavelenghs and Raindance.
The film follows 20-year-old illustrator Alice: a woman on the brink of disintegration — mentally, physically and emotionally — following the death of her therapist and her subsequent, impulsive suicide attempt. This sequence of events brings her back into contact with George, her childhood sweetheart who abruptly severed ties with her after graduating high school. They embark on a weekend trip to the nearby woodlands to find an idyllic cavernous landscape that they both recall uncovering one summer as children – though as the journey winds on, the two begin to question whether the site existed, or whether it was an idea in their heads.
Instead of catharsis, the two are forced to confront how disconnected they’ve become, with the lush, green landscapes appearing increasingly as an hermetic echo chamber of their own paranoia and resentments. Initially they bond over old touchstones — stories of old mutual friendships and a shared love of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre — they soon become at odds and are forced to face how deeply their current selves no longer align, with their differences growing into a subtle antagonism; a game of one-upmanship and verbal power plays.
This script is a compacted drama, rooted in endpoints — of relationships, lives, and professional phrases — and orchestrated around gaping absences: George’s disappearance from Alice’s life; the emotional detachment of Alice’s therapist; Alice’s withdrawal from friends and family in times of emotional crisis.
The narrative is confined to a single location, and the woodlands will play a large part in the film’s aesthetic. We hope to craft an intricate rapport between the characters and their surroundings, and the project can – in part- be described as a landscape film. The action will be cut into a series of dialogues, each captured in a single, static composition, rooted in the sensuality of the variegated natural landscapes which encase the characters, evoking the expressionism of the Straubs, Pedro Costa, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Lisandro Alonso. Compositions will be framed wide, with characters arranged in the middle-ground. There’ll be no reaction shots.
The film follows 20-year-old illustrator Alice: a woman on the brink of disintegration — mentally, physically and emotionally — following the death of her therapist and her subsequent, impulsive suicide attempt. This sequence of events brings her back into contact with George, her childhood sweetheart who abruptly severed ties with her after graduating high school. They embark on a weekend trip to the nearby woodlands to find an idyllic cavernous landscape that they both recall uncovering one summer as children – though as the journey winds on, the two begin to question whether the site existed, or whether it was an idea in their heads.
Instead of catharsis, the two are forced to confront how disconnected they’ve become, with the lush, green landscapes appearing increasingly as an hermetic echo chamber of their own paranoia and resentments. Initially they bond over old touchstones — stories of old mutual friendships and a shared love of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre — they soon become at odds and are forced to face how deeply their current selves no longer align, with their differences growing into a subtle antagonism; a game of one-upmanship and verbal power plays.
This script is a compacted drama, rooted in endpoints — of relationships, lives, and professional phrases — and orchestrated around gaping absences: George’s disappearance from Alice’s life; the emotional detachment of Alice’s therapist; Alice’s withdrawal from friends and family in times of emotional crisis.
The narrative is confined to a single location, and the woodlands will play a large part in the film’s aesthetic. We hope to craft an intricate rapport between the characters and their surroundings, and the project can – in part- be described as a landscape film. The action will be cut into a series of dialogues, each captured in a single, static composition, rooted in the sensuality of the variegated natural landscapes which encase the characters, evoking the expressionism of the Straubs, Pedro Costa, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Lisandro Alonso. Compositions will be framed wide, with characters arranged in the middle-ground. There’ll be no reaction shots.
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United Kingdom
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