41 Seconds : I kiss better than you!

Ακόμη ένα φιλμ μικρού μήκους, διάρκειας 3.46'.

Αντιγράφω, από το logonline.com, μια μικρή συνέντευξη του σκηνοθέτη της ταινίας, Rodney Sewell:

Q: What inspired you to make your film? Was there any specific reason you chose to make your film? How did you come up with the idea for your film?
Rodney: When I was storylining an afternoon soap opera set in a German high school, there were frequent fights between boys about girls, fights that usually ended in undying hatred between the male characters. This contrasted with my own gay experience, where no one I know has ever physically fought over another man. I researched my straight male friends, and they confirmed that the trash TV scenario was true: Close male friendships often founder on the question of who gets the girl. There has to be an alternative to violence, I thought, for straight boys caught in this tragic dilemma so I wrote 41 Seconds in a couple of hours to help them work out alternative methods of crisis management. Apart from that, I really wanted to see Alexander and Amir kiss.

Q: What do you hope to convey through your film?
Rodney: Achieve world peace and harmony, end wars, that sort of thing. Nothing major. Make people laugh, help people think outside the box of their social conditioning, encourage people to kiss longer.

Q: Who are your favorite filmmakers/what are a few of your favorite films and why?
Rodney: Death in Venice: a gorgeous Tadzio in a neck-to-knee bathing costume and Dirk Bogarde's hair color running down his face as he dies of typhoid. I saw it when I was 16: Is this what being gay is all about, I wondered back then? And Querelle by RW Fassbinder: everything fake, everything studio, Michael Ballhaus' camera doing 360-degree tracks around hunky sailor boys (Tadzio after a decade at sea) … mesmerizing! And Babel: accidents, coincidences, melodrama. And Brad Pitt.

Q: Anything else you'd like to provide on your film?
Rodney: We rehearsed each weekend for around four weeks before the shoot. My co-director Tobias Martin and the (straight) actors Alexander Kaffl and Amir Arul did a great job of developing a three-act structure for the kiss (truly! Look at it closely). The camera department spent two days lighting the studio; there are three different lighting set-ups during the shot. We filmed 13 takes on Super16 film. What you'll be seeing is Take 10. We scanned the negative to a 2K digital intermediate, composited, color corrected and laser printed to 35mm.

From: nickzz01