“First Date” By Ross Allen
First Date shifts the perception of golf from a sport to a feeling and explores its extension into everyday culture.
The short film IN MEDIAS RUSH is an experimental cinematic journey into the depths of a manic mind. A poetic retro-sci-fi narrative unfolded in a string of unsettling tableaus that encapsulates the male protagonist’s ambiguous feelings about his birthday.
While balancing between realities in his silent struggle with severe mental illness, we plunge into the film at a neatly orchestrated birthday party. The protagonist is accompanied by his girlfriend, and they are drinking cocoa on the couch in their mutual home. The setting breathes pure perfection, but through the voice over we sense that another reality is soon to be revealed. With one foot on the accelerator, he is heading towards the edge.
The thematic focal point of IN MEDIAS RUSH is mental health problems among young adults, and the social/personal consequences related to the existing taboo on the subject. The film wishes to formulate an honest cinematic space in which words, sound, and image artistically interprets and articulates some of the perspectives related to especially bipolar, anxiety, and psychotic disorders.
IN MEDIAS RUSH was nominated in the category 'Best Danish Short Film' at Copenhagen Short Film Festival in 2020.
Original title: IN MEDIAS RÆS
Directed by: Esben Persson
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DK: IN MEDIAS RÆS
IN MEDIAS RÆS er en filmisk rejse ind i dybderne af et manisk sind. En ung mand fejrer sin fødselsdag, mens hans tanker tordner afsted. Med en uvillig fod på speederen har han kurs mod kanten.
FR: IN MEDIA RES
IN MEDIA RES est un voyage dans les profondeurs d’un esprit maniaque. Un jeune homme fête son anniversaire tandis que ses pensées se multiplient. Malgré lui, il se dirige vers un point de non-retour.
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Cast: Peter Alexander Bach & Amanda Overby Drew
Director // Script writer // Set designer // Costume designer // Editor // Speaker: Esben Persson
Photographer // Editor: Lasse Mølsted
Producer: Latifa Lykke Ben Mabrouk
Assistant producer: Cecilie Creutsberg
Music composer: Martin Bejder
Sound designer: Mads Hye
Chief Lighting Technician: Rasmus Bruun Liboriussen
VFX: Jonas Fonnesbæk Lodahl
Colorist: Kristopher Paterson
Graphic designer: Jakob Toft Kristensen
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Shot on RED Monstro 8K with Lomo Squarefront Anamorphics.
Credits
Director Ross Allen
Director of Photography Mitchell Baxter
Director of Photography Jon Thomas
Executive Producer Jordan Barber
Producer Mack Stannard
Steadicam Jan Schadle Ubeda
Photographer Michèle Bygodt
Stylist Mackenzie Dunham
Editor Miguel Barbosa
Colourist Clinton Homuth
Sound Designer Levi Considine
Composer & Mixer Andrew Harris
Starring Tatenda Hatugari
Starring Emma Young
Production Company: GOOD-IDEA®
Film Processing: MELS
Film Scan: Filmhouse
Specials Thanks:
Vapor Music
Artjail
Family Management
Peter Hagg
Keslow Camera
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