DIY production tips for shooting a high-concept fantasy with an indie-film aesthetic. A few months after making its virtual premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley were able to finally catch their new feature Strawberry Mansion IRL for the first time at the Oak Cliff Film Festival in Dallas, Texas. We caught up with Birney and Audley at OCFF to talk about their follow-up to their 2017 SXSW standout Sylvio (a film best known for its endearing imagination—and a titular emotive-less gorilla-man talk show host.) In Strawberry Mansion, the writing, directing, and editing duo have found even greater room to create another imaginative world full of sci-fi dream machines, saxophone-playing frog people, and tattered VHS monsters. And while conceptually the film might feel on par with Terry Gilliam or Stanley Kubrick, it was shot with the DIY and indie film sensibilities of Michel Gondry or perhaps early Wes Anderson. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 20 July, 2021