Summary: DownloadGet it on iTunes {pb_mediael audio_mp3=[http://d343ypnmzkqpnf.cloudfront.net/filmwax/1320-filmwax.mp3] } Filmmaker Sam Neave (FIRST PERSON SINGULAR) visits the show to talk about his latest film, ALMOST IN LOVE described as a love story in two takes, denoting the film's 2 interrupted segments. Co-hosting the show is actor Theodore Bouloukos. ALMOST IN LOVE will enjoy a theatrical engagement at reRun Theater from February 15—21, thanks to IFP & Argot Pictures. SYNOPSIS: The story of a love triangle in two uninterrupted halves, Almost in Love mixes a naturalistic style with an ambitious form to create a unique experience. A film that deals with loyalty, friendship and love - and whether a perfect moment can save us from ourselves. It may seem perverse for a man who makes his living as an editor to try to make a film essentially without edits but Almost in Love is my attempt to combine the natural intimacy and improvisatory style that I love with a more rigorous formal aesthetic. I wanted to see if we could perform this technical sleight-of-hand without sacrificing the emphasis on performance. Using the audio to pull our focus from one conversation to another, one moment to the next, the film is a blend of performance and technique. Until very recently of course, long takes (anything over about 10 minutes) were a technical impossibility and while the digital revolution has allowed for longer takes, even in the era of HD I hadn’t seen a film that attempted to marry the bravura element of style with the intimacy of a character-driven drama. The challenge of Almost in Love is to present two continuous takes — two single breaths — in which lives are transformed and characters altered in real time. Sam Neave is Iranian by birth, British by upbringing and a New Yorker by choice. His first feature, Cry Funny Happy, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. As an editor he has worked on many award-winning features including Alex Karpovsky’s THE HOLE STORY and Ferenc Toth’s UNKNOWN SOLDIER (for which he shared the Best Editor Award at the Woodstock Film Festival). He has also been a long-time collaborator of the renowned Iranian visual artist, Shirin Neshat, and recently helped to edit her first feature, Women Without Men, which won the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. CO-HOST: Theodore Bouloukos is a New York-based actor and writer, whose performance work is divided equally between principal roles in independent narrative cinema (premiering at Sundance, SXSW, Rotterdam, Berlin, Strasbourg, among myriad festivals around the world), and numerous projects in video, painting and photography, live-performance and tableaux vivants that have been internationally exhibited at festivals, museums and galleries, including the Venice Biennale, Documenta, Performa, Art Basel and Art Basel Miami. An alumnus of The Albany Academy and Columbia University, he is also a writer, who--in addition to having contributed innumerable journalistic pieces to national publications over the years--co-wrote Hiding My Candy, published by Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster. He serves as a correspondent for The Vienna Review (Austria), and writes cultural criticism on his blog, I, THEODORE.
