30° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
CONFIDENTIAL REPORT

V/H/S

V/H/S
by Radio Silence, David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Ti West, Adam Wingard
Country: USA
Year: 2012
Duration: 116'


A small group of drifters is hired by a mysterious client to break into an abandoned house isolated in the countryside, and get hold of certain rare tapes. In the course of this singular mission they will find a corpse in front of a television set and a huge quantity of archive films, each stranger and more inexplicable than the next. A horror anthology, made up of the episodes Tape 56, Amateur Night, Second Honeymoon, Tuesday the 17 th, The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Young, “10/31/98”, directed by some of the most interesting independent American filmmakers.

Biography

film director

David Bruckner

David Bruckner is one of the directors in The Signal (2007), a three-author horror nominated in 2008 for the John Cassavetes Film Independent Spirit Award.

Glenn McQuaid

Glenn McQuaid (Dublin, Ireland, 1973) debuted with the feature film I Sell the Dead (2008).

Radio Silence

Radio Silence is a directors’ collective composed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez and Chad Villella, which hit the news with its video series A Chad, Matt & Rob Interactive Adventure.

Joe Swanberg

Joe Swanberg (Detroit, MI, USA, 1981), after graduating in film. directed his first movie, Kissing on the Mouth. It was followed three years later by LOL, which featured Greta Gerwig, who also acted in Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) and Nights and Weekend (2008). In 2010 he completed seven feature films, including Uncle Kent, which premiered at Sundance in 2011 and then at the South by Southwest Festival, and the diptych Silver Bullets and Art History, selected by the Berlinale Forum that same year. Swanberg has also worked for the web, directing the IFC.com series Young American Bodies. He has acted in over thirty movies, including V/H/S, which he also helped direct, and which participated at last year’s Torino Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Kissing on the Mouth (2005), LOL (2006), Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007), Swedish Blueballs (cm, 2008), Nights and Weekends (2008), Alexander the Last (2009), Uncle Kent (2011), Silver Bullets (2011), Art History (2011), The Zone (2011), Autoerotic (2011), Caitlin Plays Herself (2011), V/H/S (ep. The Newlyweds, cm, 2012), Marriage Material (2012), Drinking Buddies (2013).

Ti West

Ti West (Wilmington, DE, USA, 1980) studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and has directed around ten feature and short-films.

Adam Wingard

Adam Wingard (Oak Ridge, TN, USA, 1981) graduated in 2002 from Full Sail University. He shot his first short Little One in 2004, followed by The Girlfriend (2005). In 2007, he made his first two feature films: the horror comedy Home Sick, and the supernatural thriller Pop Skull, which he made with only a two thousand dollar budget. He codirected Autoerotic (2011) with Joe Swanberg; he also participated as a filmmaker and actor in the collective movies V/H/S (2012) and V/H/S 2 (2013), both of which were presented at the Torino Film Festival. 

FILMOGRAFIA

Little One (cm, 2004), The Girlfriend (cm, 2005), Home Sick (2007), 1000 Year Sleep (cm, 2007), Pop Skull (2007), Laura Panic (cm, 2007), Paradox Mary (cm, 2008), Little Sister Gone (cm, 2008), Horrible Way to Die (2010), Autoerotic (coregia/codirector Joe Swanberg, 2011), What Fun We Were Having (2011), V/H/S (ep. Tape 56, cm, 2012), V/H/S 2 (ep. Phase I Clinical Trials, cm, 2013), You’re Next (2013), The Guest (2014).

Declaration

film director

“Being an anthology film fanatic, I jumped at the chance to be a part of V/H/S. From Michael Redgrave’s seemingly alive (and twisted) ventriloquist’s dummy in Dead of Night, to John Lithgow’s white-knuckled air traveler in Twilight Zone: The Movie, some of my favorite cinematic moments come from portmanteau horror. Adding ‘found footage’ to the mix seemed a genius stroke, and though certainly a new way of working for me, I tried to embrace the mandate.” (Glenn McQuaid)

Cast

& Credits

regia/directors Adam Wingard (Tape 56), David Bruckner (Amateur Night), Ti West (Second Honeymoon), Glenn McQuaid (Tuesday the 17th), Joe Swanberg (The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Young), Radio Silence («10/31/98»)
sceneggiatura/screenplay Simon Barrett (Tape 56), David Bruckner, Nicholas Tecosky (Amateur Night), Ti West (Second Honeymoon), Glenn McQuaid (Tuesday the 17th), Simon Barrett (The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Young), Radio Silence («10/31/98»)
fotografia/cinematography Adam Wingard, Andrew Droz Palermo, Michael J. Wilson (Tape 56), Victoria K. Warren (Amateur Night), Adam Wingard (The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Young), Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez («10/31/98»)
interpreti/cast Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, (Tape 56), Hannah Fierman, Mike Donlan (Amateur Night), Joe Swanberg, Sophia Takal (Second Honeymoon), Norma C. Quinones, Drew Moerlein, (Tuesday the 17 th), Helen Rogers, Daniel Kaufman (The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Young), Chad Villella, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin («10/31/98»)
produzione/production Magnet (V/H/S)
distribuzione/distribution Magnolia Pictures
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