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NAME:
Filip J. Rymsza
TITLE / ROLE:
Writer / Director / Producer
COMPANY:
m31 films (www.m31films.com)
PRODUCTION CREDITS:
Sandcastles (a.k.a. binary blindfolded brides)
Eden (TV) director
LIVES:
Arlington Heights
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You've shot "Sandcastles" and are in the early stages of its companion piece "Dustclouds" currently. What are your goals for the film and what do you need the most from the production community to complete it?
I need a little bit of everything. Certainly money, but also creative energy and enthusiasm. Such things are always welcome, at every stage of the game. I've assembled a great production team, on whom I can rely and who believe in our joint purpose and the possibilities brought upon by such collaboration, but team is not whole. I could always use a capable production coordinator and you can never have too many producers, i.e. people with connections. Everything little bit helps.
In terms of goals, those are always the same. To make the film the very best it can be – to realize it to its utmost potential. If that's attained, then everything else will be fit into place.
What works about making filming in Chicago and what doesn't?
Ask me again in ten years.
Who in Chicago do you admire and who would you like to work with in the future?
I consider myself new to the scene. I've heard great things about David O'Connor, and his casting agency, but Tenner Paskal & Rudnicke did such a marvelous job casting Sandcastles, that I'd love to continue working with them. I'd certainly welcome the opportunity to work with some well-known actors, and Chicago has many to offer, because their involvement insures exposure. That's key at this juncture. And such a relationship is so symbiotic that I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. I mean, in such an endeavor, everyone wins. Right?
From previous conversations, you strike us as a fairly rabid cineaste. Name five great, relatively unknown films that we'd be fools not to see.
Relatively unknown? That's pretty vague. I'm tempted to name some lesser known works by Mizoguchi, Bresson, Marker, Tarr, or Tsai...all their work is underrated, even if it doesn't qualify as being "relatively unknown." So, before I produce a list, I must impose my own set of criteria: films that are not in distribution, films I'd go to great lengths to see again, films that, in my opinion, deserve the Criterion treatment:
"Marketa Lazarova"
"Il Conformista"
"Red Palms"
"Satantango"
"A Brighter Summer Day" (full, four hour version)
"Out of the Past"
"Husbands"
Sorry, that's seven, and you only asked for five, but I can't narrow it down any further.
I'd also like to add the Dennis Potter-penned, TV series, Karaoke, which I regard as the best TV has ever had to offer, right alongside Twin Peaks, Fawlty Towers, and Scenes from a Marriage.
m31 films. Where does the name come from?
m31 is the Messier object designation for the Andromeda Galaxy; the closest, large spiral galaxy to our own. It's our neighbor, 2.5 million light years away, but that gap is closing at 500,000 km/hr, meaning that it's due to arrive here in about three billion years. So watch out.
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Written by Richard Sharp
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