Got a copy of a short film that I've been a part of making that we have since finished in the past few months.

We started on one project titled "Link" which was a solid 30 minute short film, but we just couldn't get the shots we wanted or the lighting we needed to pull it off. So after 2 years of trying, we scraped it (2 years sounds like a lot of work, but it was more like once or twice a week for about 2 hours a session and about 4 real shoots) And most of those meetings were wasted just hanging out Probably why that project failed, by the time we got anything captured etc, we'd have shots we would need to reshoot, and due to our cruddy lighting and time frame (hair cuts, facial hair changed etc) almost none of our retakes were compatible.

So then we switched over to our backburner project (our ultimate goal was to make the oct.10 Slamdance submission deadline which we made with time to spare!) It was titled "While they howled" and is a mockumentary interview of a survivor of a concentration camp. The tale he tells for the interview is of the day he was liberated and the incident that ensued. It was shot entirely backwards.

Now when I say that, I mean it as entirely backwards, The Guy (his name is Marc, but I call him the guy) has weird ambitions, and since he is the writer/director he wanted to be different and not just fake an accent but really make it etheral. So he recorded the audio exactly as he wanted it per scripted dialouge and then reversed it. Played that back and listened to it a lot. Then he would take it in sections at a time and write it out phoenetically to him (hardly legible to anyone but himself given the nature of it) and test recorded himself saying the newly created gibberish. Once he recorded that, he reversed his backwards language and sure enough it came out as english but....really weird sounding If you have ever seen Twin Peaks, the tv show from early 90's, it (and the rest of David Lynch) was his inspiration vis a vie The backwards talking midget from the red lounge.

The movie itself came out around 26 or so minutes, it's primary attributes are its dialouge as it's an interview, the entire scene is him in the interviewee's chair smoking a cigar with flashbacks of stock WW2 footage and varios other clips, all of which is rendered in B&W and film noise effects. Since it's all run backwards, the smoke is "eaten" instead of blown out, which at times has a really cool effect.

I'm pretty jazzed about it, Its been sent to 3 seperate film festivals so far, we'll hear back about them by mid december to early january so I'm told. We're hoping that the darkness of the story and hopefully not to harshly judged editing will let it get into something