New short movie premieres
posted August 20 :::
My latest short movie, Sounds, premiered at the Lite Brite Indie Pop and Film Test at the Southgate House on July 25. Lite Brite was looking for five-minute movies to document the cicada infestation of 2004, and Sounds was my response.
If you didn’t have the pleasure of residing in Cincinnati this spring, you missed the approximately seven billion Brood X cicadas which emerged from the ground around the middle of May. For four or so weeks they flew into our hair, cars and just about everything else. Above all they made noise, primarily during sunny afternoons. That gave me the idea for Sounds – the idea being to use the cicada noise as a metaphor for things you can’t stop thinking about. So I created a (nameless) character and wrote a monologue for her.
The character is a writer in her 20’s raising a baby girl named Caitlin. She and her daughter live alone. Her monologue (during an afternoon bout with writer’s block, while Caitlin’s sleeping and the cicadas are singing) ambles over everyday worries, childhood memories, her scars, her regrets, her baby girl.
Then… well, I won’t spoil the ending. Elizabeth Goffena voiced the part of Caitlin’s mom, and Paul Galati edited the picture. Check back for info on future screenings of Sounds.
Imitation also played the Lite Brite festival – on a really big screen. Lite Brite projected movies on to the south wall of the Imax theatre, across the street from the Southgate House. From the porch at Southgate you could hear the movies too, but passerbys at Newport on the Levee (and there were plenty) could only see the giant screen projection. Imitation was one of the movies screened this way. I’m curious (but will never know) what those passerbys thought of my three silent actresses auditioning for a fictional movie in the middle of a summer night.
