Seat-slapping comedy, eye-popping absurdity, falling chairs and old-time transvestite cowboys and Indians were a few of the highlights from Short Cuts Canada?s Programme 1 at the ROM on Friday.
Two of the most warmly received films were Peter Lynch?s A Short Film About Falling, and Neil and Cathy McInnes? Automoto. Here?s what those directors had to say:
Peter Lynch (pictured above): ?About a year and a half ago Max Dean (co-director and inventor of the falling chair) called me and told me he wanted to make a film about this chair he was building that kept falling. I thought, that sounds like a Peter Lynch type of film. We ended up saying we didn?t want to make a documentary and we ended up talking about falling a lot. This is the import of all those conversations that happened over a period time.?
Neil McInnes: If you want to test your marriage just do a film together, parts of you that are never sort of visible emerge. We have a great relationship and we?ve been working together for 25 years now. It?s a five minute film that?s a reimagining of the animation process from script to film.
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