Crime Film
Director: Auden Lincoln-Vogel
Cast:Philip Rabalais, Auden Lincoln-Vogel, Jessie Kraemer
Crew:Writer: Auden Lincoln-Vogel. Producer: Auden Lincoln-Vogel.
Email:alincolnvogel@gmail.com
Synopsis
Shot on long-expired and mishandled 16mm film, a truck of similar age and decrepitude is inspected, tested, and sold. Though both seller and buyer may be honest and fair, it is a law of this life that nothing may go as planned.
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About the director
Auden Lincoln-Vogel is an American filmmaker whose work spans both animation and live action. His films have been screened at festivals including the Cannes Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Black Nights Film Festival, and the European Media Arts Festival. He and his directing partner, Philip Rabalais, are co-founders of Osline Pictures.
Filmmaker's note
I'm interested in films that break apart. This is also the reason I am attracted to narrative, even as I work in a more experimental mode like "Crime Film" - with expired 16mm film developed in a big old bucket. For me, characters and causality are a container built of expectations ripe for disruption - disruptions of performance, of identity, of perspective that can have surprising emotional effects, ranging from the humorous to the existentially terrifying. "Crime Film" had a few distinct sources that got jammed together (or splintered apart): icons of masculine eroticism and camp, a dispassionate Bressonian approach to film, and hypnotic mantras. However, I think of this film as less of a formal exercise that plays with each of these modes and more of a group portrait - almost a documentary - of the strange relationship between the three actors/crew who created this film.