New Movie Project

Nate and I are putting together a short film for a Northwest Film Forum project based on an old game called "The Exquisite Corpse". From their site:

This quarter’s filmmaking challenge is a film version of the surrealist game Exquisite Corpse. Participants will be free to film anything they want, but will begin and end their segments with images chosen randomly out of a hat. For example, one person might pick from a hat a slip that says "Begin with man with a hat/ End with barking dog." This is how they begin and end their film. Another person will draw a slip that says "Begin with barking dog/ End with girl riding a bike." What happens in the interim will be the filmmaker's choice. The finished films will be shown in sequence with the chosen images anchoring the films together.

Should be a lot of fun. Our segment is "Begin with a boy standing on his head/End with a train going by". So naturally, I wrote a 5-minute rom-com. Ha! Two people from our day job have been cast: Shereen Alibhai as the love interest, and Ginny Humphrey's son Corbin as the little boy that stands on his head. Locations are: my apartment, and Dad Watson's in Fremont. Nate and I still need to find some kind of pastoral setting for the first scene, and we're thinking about a winery. We'll probably head out to Woodinville this weekend to scout. And drink.

Deadline is 4/28. Watch this space!