Yesterday’s last screening with Q&As was Rough Cut, a deconstruction-cum-homage to horror film and, above all, a mock documentary comedy about the shooting of a non-existent thriller. As the film is a cinematic debut by an English visual artist, Jamie Shovlin, the moderator Jedrt Jež Furlan had a point in enquiring about the difference between the two media. The director admitted that the encounter with the cinematic media had been much more demanding as he had anticipated – if in the beginning ideas were supposed to be developed with three people, over the course of five years, the time of the pre-production, the team expanded to include 40 people, with each idea going through a procedure that was markedly more demanding than in individual visual expression. Shovlin “played” the film’s director and wanted everything to be as genuine and authentic as possible without even knowing why.

When asked why he made a remake of a non-existent horror film Shovlin replied that there were two reasons: the blend of visual art and music he devised functions best in a horror film, what was even more decisive was the limited budget – and low-budget invariably leads into horror. To faithfully follow Mike Hart’s script, Shovlin selected approximately 50 clips for the non-existent film, and filmed only 12 minutes of an actual horror film. In view of the low budget, the filming was also affected by a number of unexpected circumstances. As they were shooting the North American scenes in Northern Scotland, for example, they could not use cars, as the left-hand driving would reveal the inconsistencies. This further contributed to the inevitable surprises that accompany each shoot. 

Andraž Jež

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