#MondayMovies: Grant and Adam Conversano
A filmmaking sibling duo got permission to shoot the 2020 graduation at Concord High School in NC. What results is an intimate blip in time existing within a global crisis. Told in a detached observational style, it moves me a thousand different ways.
Grant and Adam of Apple House Pictures talk three films that influenced this fantastic documentary.
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Long Term Parking
Grant: “I’m not really a doc guy…but being around Lance and at Sundance I realized that the borders between fiction and nonfiction are very porous”
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Daybreak Express
Grant: “This was taught to us in film school…its following the sun and kind of about the light in New York City. It’s a lot more frenetic than what we were going for but I still think we ended up doing that…we start with sunrise and end with sundown. It’s kind of subtle, people may not even realize that the whole day passes in eight minutes.”
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Roadside Attraction
Grant: “It’s a moment of time in the Trump era…the way the approached filming that was definitely influential.”
Adam: “In the construction of this film, there’s the plane which is the subject, and there are the people observing the subject who are also the subject of the film…there’s a similar subject spectacle in our film.”
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Hands of Bresson
Grant: “Bresson’s films, especially Pickpocket were highly influential.”
Adam: “Graduation is about getting your diploma, a very specific moment… how do we capture that? This Bressonian approach to hand and gesture and exchange…how to cut and frame so it is emphasized and understood in an instant.”