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June 15, 2010

Editing Fever

This is one of my favorite frames from Dustin Guy Defa's Bad Fever, a few feature film I've been editing for the past month (readers of the Filmmaker Magazine blog may remember Scott Macaulay's post about it not too long ago). The film stars Kentucker Audley and Eleonore Hendricks (currently on screens in the Safdie's Daddy Longlegs). It's really good, I think: sad, funny and slightly dirty, both in content and in aesthetic (VHS tape plays a significant role in the movie). Watching Dustin's rough assembly earlier this spring, I was thrilled to see something that felt so fresh and unconventional. I was excited to push those buttons even further in my own edit, and tomorrow I'm heading to New York for a week of finishing touches. I'm expecting good things.

Also: now would be a suitable time to offer a belated congratulation to good friend Chris Ohlson, whose experimental road-trip movie Melvin (which I edited last October) was selected for the 2010 IFP Narrative Rough Cut Labs, which just wrapped up in New York last week. The labs were of invaluable assistance in ushering St. Nick out into the world; hopefully, Chris will get just as much leverage out of them.

Posted by David Lowery at June 15, 2010 6:31 PM