BASE
Base is a surrealist dinner party film set in Williamsburg. The film is inspired by Luis Bunuel’s films of the sixties and seventies, like The Discreet Charm of Bourgousie and The Exterminating Angel. The idea is that the characters are living out this dinner party on repeat, on a loop in a sort of Vico-esque cycle. Each night they arrive, the hosts don’t remember inviting the guests. Some of the guests don’t remember each other and throughout the party they work through a part of their relationships. Like in talking therapy, repetition exercises the demons supposedly. How do you make a bad dream lose its power? By repeating what happened, by repeating it’s origins. What if the people are living in a kind of dreamworld themselves, whose dream is it? How do you find the nightmare that holds the power over its host? Are politics more important than matters of the heart? Or is love always the most important thing? Does God talk back, if you’ve devoted your life to him? And is adultery funny? Are some of the questions that Base asks.
SCREENING: Crowley Theater - FRI 7/15 - 11:45 AM
Short
12m
USA
Alexandra McGuinness
was born in Dublin, Ireland. She graduated from the London Film School in 2010; her graduation film - She Owns Everything; based on a short story by Anne Enright was chosen to represent her graduating class. Her debut feature film Lotus Eaters premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival before being released theatrically in the US and Europe by Curzon, and Pathe. She has directed commercials, short films, and music videos for artists and brands such as The Voice, Clinique, Sony, Universal records and Rebecca Taylor. She was named one of Variety’s 10 Brits to Watch and featured on the cover of the magazine (despite being Irish). Alexandra created, wrote and directed the web series RIDERS for Turner’s web channel Super Deluxe. Alexandra is currently in preproduction on her second feature film Highway. She lives in Los Angeles.
CREDITS
DIRECTOR/WRITER: ALEXANDRA MCGUINNESS
DoP: BEN MCENTIRE
EDITOR: DANNY ABEL
PRODUCER: MARK LEE
ART DIRECTOR: ALLEGRA CROWTHER
CAST
KAREN – JEN TULLOCK
RITA – REMY BENNETT
DANNY – NATHAN STEWART JARRETT
MIDGE – HANNAH UTT
MIDGE – NORA KIRKPATRICK
JONATHAN – BLAKE BERRIS
LUIS – BOBBY MORENO
MR.SMITH – CARSON GRANT