Country: USA
Year: 2009
Duration: 81'
YOU WONT MISS ME “I wanted to make a film that could only be made at this particular moment in time, that would speak to our entire visual existence today. There are so many ways to see and capture and they all speak a slightly different and nuanced language. I used five different formats to document a twenty-three-year-old misfit named Shelly Brown. This portrait is rendered in fragments and as these pieces add up, a larger image of the character emerges.”
Shelly is twenty-three years old and has been released from a psychiatric hospital. Setting her sights on an acting career, she attends multiple auditions, but her emotional intensity in these settings keeps her from getting jobs. Friendships, especially with other women, become fraught arenas of blaming and casual encounters with men offer little hope of romance. Only talking with her shrink gives Shelly a leg up on the go-nowhere cycles of her life.
Biography
film director
Ry Russo-Young
Ry Russo-Young (New York, NY, USA, 1981) made her first film, Wide Berth, in collaboration with Lola Schnabel, while attending Saint Ann’s High School. After graduating from Oberlin College in 2003, Russo-Young made the Super 8 short film Marion. A three-screen deconstruction of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, the film screened at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival and garnered several awards, including a Silver Hugo at the 2005 Chicago International Film Festival and the Jury Award for Best Experimental Film at the 2006 SXSW Film Festival. Ry Russo-Young’s feature film debut, Orphans, received a Special Jury Prize at the 2007 SXSW Film Festival and screened at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, among others. She worked on artist Doug Aitken’s video installation Sleepwalkers, which appeared on the exterior of the Museum of Modern Art of New York in January, 2007.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Wide Berth (coregia/codirector Lola Schnabel, cm, 1999), Marion (cm, 2005), Orphans (2007), You Wont Miss Me (2009).
Cast
& Credits
regia, produttore/director, producer
Ry Russo-Young
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Ry Russo-Young, Stella Schnabel
fotografia/cinematography
Kitao Sakurai, Ku-Ling Siegel
montaggio/film editing
Gil Kofman, Ry Russo-Young
musica/music
Will Bates
suono/sound
Andrew Barchilon, Micah Bloomberg
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Stella Schnabel (Shelly Brown), Simon O’Connor (Simon), Zachary Tucker (David), Borden Capalino (Jesse), Carlen Altman (Carlen), Rene Ricard (Allen B. Poor), Josephine Wheelwright (Rachel), David Anzuelo (Pablo Martinez), Gil Kofman (Don), Sarah Ball (Frank), Aaron Katz (Joe), Donald Eric Cumming (Eric), Barlow Jacobs (Sparks) Alison Wonderland (Lucy), Noah Kimmerling (il dottor/Dr Shwartz)
vendita all’estero/world sales
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Ry Russo-Young
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Ry Russo-Young, Stella Schnabel
fotografia/cinematography
Kitao Sakurai, Ku-Ling Siegel
montaggio/film editing
Gil Kofman, Ry Russo-Young
musica/music
Will Bates
suono/sound
Andrew Barchilon, Micah Bloomberg
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Stella Schnabel (Shelly Brown), Simon O’Connor (Simon), Zachary Tucker (David), Borden Capalino (Jesse), Carlen Altman (Carlen), Rene Ricard (Allen B. Poor), Josephine Wheelwright (Rachel), David Anzuelo (Pablo Martinez), Gil Kofman (Don), Sarah Ball (Frank), Aaron Katz (Joe), Donald Eric Cumming (Eric), Barlow Jacobs (Sparks) Alison Wonderland (Lucy), Noah Kimmerling (il dottor/Dr Shwartz)
vendita all’estero/world sales
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