Back to School, Day 13: Four Eyed Monsters
For the last regular day of class yesterday, we watched the first 10 minutes or so of Jonathan Caouette’s stunning “Tarnation”, a small, personal film made for no money that went on to secure international distribution and screen at festivals from Cannes, to Sundance. And for the feature screening yesterday, I decided to show Susan Buice and Arin Crumley‘s accomplished and endearing “Four Eyed Monsters”. Susan and Arin (pictured right) joined us in class for a lenghtly discussion about how they made this unique look at love and their own relationship, blending narrative and non-fiction to tell their story. I thought that the students might find their film inspiring and their stories about making and trying to release the film eye-opening.
Films like “Four Eyed Monsters”, not to mention other recent favorites of mine like “The Puffy Chair” and “Cavité”, can face a tough time finding a way out into the world, but I have hope that each of those movies will find their supporters in the biz and attract the niche audience’s that exist for each film.
In the case of Susan and Arin, they are still tweaking their film a bit. The version that I watched yesterday in class was revised a bit from the DVD I watched last week (of course I had been holding onto it for a few weeks). The two of them are determined to take a shot at finding a distributor and they have spent a lot of time thinking about the process and who might make sense to approach, not to mention developing a grass roots marketing campaign that they will unleash once they are ready.
I was especially impressed to hear them talk about how, as truly indie filmmakers today, you have to think like an entrepreneur. There is no better lesson I could teach an indie filmmaker today. If you are making your film as a true independent, outside the system with your own resources and no support, it is often unlikely that you will be able to turn to the corporate Indiewood companies for distribution and support. Even the mid-level and smaller niche distributors have very narrow taste these days, so I feel that finding a home after a successful fest run—for a unique narrative film without stars and made on a small budget—is a serious challenge. But with a clear target audience in mind, smart filmmakers can find some level of success…but it may take time and tremendous persistence.
Later, one more dispatch as the class wraps up.
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