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By the time we finished shooting Brick, Rian and I had been seeing each other every day, all day, for months, and so we agreed that we should part ways for a while, not due to any ill will whatsoever, but simply for the sake of ebb and flow and such.  We decided that, when next we met, it would be in Paris, I would have some French words in my pocket, he would have a super-8 camera in his, and something good would come of it.  We shook hands on the matter.

I picked a poem out of a book that belonged to my mom called Paroles (which means ‘"lyrics"’ or something), a collection from 1946 by Jacques Prévert. The poem is called Chanson des escargots qui vont à l'enterrement,”which translates into something like ‘"Song of the Snails on their way to a Burial."  Rian kept his word about the camera, and we spent a day in Paris talking about the poem, riding the metro, and shooting stuff.  Back in Los Angeles, I enlisted the help of my old friend Jeff to create an audio recording of the poem and accompanying music.  Months later, Noah and I borrowed Rian's camera for a day to shoot the rest. (This was my shot-list, if you're interested.)  I put everything into Final Cut Pro, cut, pasted and keynoted some animations, threw in some stuff I taped off TV, et voilà.  The whole thing was finished almost exactly a year after that last night in San Clemente.

le poème

co-conception, Paris camera

audio recording co-producer, engineer, mix, samples

California camera, gloved hand, auto-mechanic

adaptation, acting, voiceover, samples, piano, guitar, background voices, animation, editing