Short Film: More Real? (or how things will be better with Lisa and me)

This video was commissioned for the Site Santa Fe and Minneapolis Museum of Art exhibition entitled “More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness.” I proposed to curator Elizabeth Armstrong that the video would appear to be an educational film for the museum, something that people might watch to prepare themselves for the exhibition. I wanted this to feel corporate and somehow completely wrong, as though someone in the museum’s education department had made a terrible mistake. The video begins as a very straightforward educational film, but then it slowly collapses in on itself as the video’s host tries to get to the bottom of his own personal crisis involving his girlfriend.

This film was the winner of the 2012 Golden Gate Award for short film at the San Francisco International Film Festival

Production Company: New Film Administration

Producer – Max Fink

Producer/AD – Brad Boyer

Producer – Chris Routh

Host – Ian Price

Curator – Elizabeth Armstrong

Lisa – Jennifer Stuckert

Mark – Stanley Sawicki

DP – Josh Hittleman

Editor – Greg Janza

Casting Director – Sarah Overman

1st AC – Sean Karlin

2nd AC – Dean Snodgrass

Gaffer – Damien Lucas

Key Grip – Carlos Lopez

Dolly Grip – Doug Dole

Swing – Kevin Lawrence

Rigging Grip – Adan Pulido

Sound – Lou Wiskes

Script Supervisor – Regina Moreno

Costume Designer – Jessica Fink

Key Costumer – Amanda Ramirez

Makeup Artist – Marta Camer

Stills – Lenny Gonzalez

Stills – Danielle Cheifetz

EPK – Elia Vargas

Production Manager – Lyniel Dao

Post Supervisor – Peter Jarit

Production Assistant – Packard Jennings

Production Assistant – Desiree Holman