5:04PM, OCTOBER 17, 1989
Seven Point One is about a man who tries to shoot himself in the head at the moment the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake strikes. Although I have no discernible preoccupation with suicide, it's the second movie I've made with self-destruction as the central narrative. You can call it therapy. I call it drama.
I shot the movie on digital video in and around San Francisco: South Oakland, the Marin Headlands, Briones Regional Park, the Presidio, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Marina district, Yerba Buena Island, Treasure Island, Mussel Rock, on a boat to Alcatraz.
My second movie had to be -- had to be -- much better than the first. I spent about the same amount of money on each movie (i.e., almost nothing), but I spent it on entirely different ends. I wrote a far more demanding script, but couldn't find talented friends to submit to my whip and schedule. As an obscurantist, I knew I wanted to evoke the experimental roots of film, the power through image and sound alone to construct a movie.
I fussed over Seven Point One far longer than any director/editor of a 15-minute flick ever should (nearly 2 years). But I wanted it to be right. To suggest what I have in store for the future.
I shot the movie on digital video in and around San Francisco: South Oakland, the Marin Headlands, Briones Regional Park, the Presidio, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Marina district, Yerba Buena Island, Treasure Island, Mussel Rock, on a boat to Alcatraz.
My second movie had to be -- had to be -- much better than the first. I spent about the same amount of money on each movie (i.e., almost nothing), but I spent it on entirely different ends. I wrote a far more demanding script, but couldn't find talented friends to submit to my whip and schedule. As an obscurantist, I knew I wanted to evoke the experimental roots of film, the power through image and sound alone to construct a movie.
I fussed over Seven Point One far longer than any director/editor of a 15-minute flick ever should (nearly 2 years). But I wanted it to be right. To suggest what I have in store for the future.
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