Transcript:
0:03 - 0:53
Daria Huxley:
Welcome to Feature & a short, monthly screening hosted by Fourwind Films, where an appointed contributor presents their chosen feature motion picture and a short movie. There's only one condition for a screening selection. The presenter must have been directly involved with one picture, but not the other. My name is Daria Huxley. I am a photographer at Fourwind Films.
Today's presenter is Justin Joseph Hall, who is the owner of Fourwind Films, and he's an editor and director. The first film he's presenting is the short that he directed called Long Distance. Long Distance is a one-minute movie. It's about a long distance relationship between a girl in Arizona and a guy in Paris. Justin was acting along with Isabel Restrepo, who is our friend who lives in L.A. After this short film, we had an even shorter discussion.
0:53 - 1:34
Justin Joseph Hall:
There was no room for titles or credits in that short. Hope you enjoyed it. I made that in 2016 and uh, this was all just shot on vacation when I was bored. I was shooting a documentary in Paris and then when I had time off, I shot this. And then like a year, two years later I shot the, the other part. It’s shot while we were waiting to go to the wedding of my friend.
And then I finished it in a week in post-production at my house at night. Obviously, that was all toned. I'm not very good at memorizing lines so the film I directed myself in had no lines in it (laughs). So, that was a fun short.
1:35 - 1:49
Daria Huxley (as narrator):
Justin's choice for the feature was the French movie called Science des rêves or Science of Sleep. It is an arthouse movie featuring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Gael García Bernal.
Justin Joseph Hall:
I feel like this movie has the same kind of feeling for it, the same sort of longing. It also happens to take place, I do believe, in Paris. It's by Michel Gondry. I don't know if you guys have seen, he’s pretty famous for his music videos.
Daria Huxley (as narrator):
During the screening of this Michel Gondry movie, we offered six-inch baguette sandwiches to our audience because they were featured in the movie as well. After the film, we had a discussion as a group.
2:13 - 2:33
Audience:
About the use of different languages was really cool, especially in the first dream sequence because everybody's talking at him but it's all French but in gibberish and none of it matches the lip flap at all. And then in the um park, the main character, he's dubbed the entire time but the flap isn’t great, so-
Justin Joseph Hall:
There was a couple of times they did it when they were speaking in-
Audience:
Yeah.
Justin Joseph Hall:
French and then they would talk in English.
Audience:
Yeah, exactly.
2:38 - 2:39
Justin Joseph Hall:
That’s but that’s right at the beginning. Yeah.
Audience:
Yeah, uh and that was interesting. I really like the mental understanding of all three languages through one person.
2:47 - 2:57
Justin Joseph Hall:
I think it’s very interesting watching it the second time too is that they really suggest something with the way they act, like at the beginning when the two lied about their job but you don't know who's telling the truth.
Audience:
Yeah.
Justin Joseph Hall:
But then they confirm it later on in the film and they did that like 5 or 8 times.
Audience:
Yeah.
3:02 - 3:11
Justin Joseph Hall:
Where they really suggest something but they don't confirm it until way later. I brought that other part up too because it reminds me of, like, The Sound and the Fury. Has anybody read that book?
Audience:
Yeah.
Justin Joseph Hall:
Yeah, you know how they don't tell you anything and then they confirm it like 60 pages later?
Audience:
(laughter)
3:18 - 3:30
Justin Joseph Hall:
To me, it's like the same thing but this is more obvious because you can see social cues that you can’t in the book. So if you guys like this; be sure to watch his music video. He's famous for his music videos. Um, but they have a lot of the animation that’s interesting.
Audience:
I'm just going to ask…
Justin Joseph Hall:
I think he did The White Stripes one.
Audience:
Yeah, I was going to say-
Audience:
Yeah.
Audience:
I definitely heard Jack White in the, in the soundtrack.
Justin Joseph Hall:
Well that was, yeah that was The White Stripes.
Audience:
Yeah.
Justin Joseph Hall:
That's the last album. Then he's done a few Daft Punk videos
Audience:
Oh.
3:44 - 3:50
Justin Joseph Hall:
and a bunch of other stuff. He also did the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. But yeah, he doesn't do a lot of features.
3:51 - 4:05
Jasmine Szympruch:
It was nice getting lost in… Like, it took me a minute to catch on that he was acting out his dreams in real life, like. That… yeah. I felt disjointed with him which was cool.
4:06 - 4:16
Justin Joseph Hall:
Yeah, I like the dream sequence, it’s one of my favorite episodes in The Sopranos, there’s a dream sequence at the end of the season. But I just like watching how other people make it feel like a dream.
Audience:
Sensual…
Daria Huxley (as narrator):
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