Summary
"My mind automatically flips into parody," says [Charlie Cline], who started conceiving a film that would move from activities utterly mundane ("Man Opens Umbrella") to the increasingly bizarre -- which is how the production of his next short film came to require a performer in a bear costume. Later, in that imaginatively fertile half-asleep state of mind, Cline thought of a novel way to tie the planned film's disparate episodes together. "Archive" gets its local premiere at the Dec. 14 Film Kitchen, along with Cline's earlier short "Mysteries of the Unanticipated" and "Something Else," a short by Chris Radcliff.
For "Archive," Cline sought to recreate the feel of the vintage flickers that sparked it. Cline and director of photography Richie Sherman shot in black-and-white on Super 8 mm film (the old home-movie format); Cline developed the exposed footage himself for that nicked-up, aged look. He digitized the images for editing in the Final Cut Pro program, but "Archive" retains the deep-focus images unique to Super 8, as well as the format's beautiful range of gray tones. The six songs on the soundtrack -- including the catchy "Jada Jada Jada Jing Jing Jing," by A. Fields and Chorus -- were recorded off actual vintage wax cylinders played on a family friend's actual vintage Edison player.See the full content of this document
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Cinemanagement
Like so many motion-picture enthusiasts, Charlie Cline grew up running around with his parents' video camera, making backyard versions of George Romero's zombie films. "I sort of went through a gore phase," says ...
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