A girl from Oregon, who is running away from a hard life, drives her car into an embankment. In search of help and under shock, she walks back along the road she drove down but she is attracted in the opposite direction by a mysterious flashing glare which is followed by an unbearable noise. She is forced to retrace her steps and has no choice but to face the horrible spectacle around her car. “I had a dream that I was getting rained on in the woods and laughing about it. The very next day I started writing a movie about a girl lost and getting rained on in the woods, having the worst time she’d ever had. I don’t have a grand theory or even a very strong belief that dreams have a secret meaning or code. But there is something sacred to me about the unconscious brain telling a story so crazy and abstract that it’s never quite possible to replicate or even relay verbally in a coherent way. I made this movie because I was interested in probing the unknown and there is no way to tell if I did that correctly.”
Biography
film director
Calvin Lee Reeder
Calvin Lee Reeder (Portland, OR, USA) moved to Seattle; in 2007, he presented his short film Little Farm at the Sundance Film Festival, where he also participated the next year with The Rambler. A musician as well as a filmmaker, he has played with the art punk groups Popular Shapes and Intelligence. The Oregonian is his debut feature-length film.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Little Farm (cm, 2007), The Rambler (cm, 2008), The Oregonian (2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Calvin Lee Reeder
fotografia/cinematography
Ryan K. Adams
montaggio/film editing
Buzz Pierce
musica/music
Scott Honea, Calvin Lee Reeder, Jed Maheu
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Lindsay Pulsipher (la ragazza dell’Oregon/Oregonian Girl), Robert Longstreet (Herb), Matt Olsen (la straniera bionda/Blonde Stranger), Lynne Compton (la straniera rossa/Red Stranger), Barlow Jacobs (Bud), Chadwick Brown (Ronnie), Jed Maheu (Murph)
produttori/producers
Christian Palmer, Roger M. Mayer, Christo Dimassis, Wen Marcoux, Ryan K. Adams, Scott Honea, Joey Marcoux, Elana Krausz
vendita all’estero/world sales
Casa/e di distribuzione