32° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ONDE/JOSEPHINE DECKER

BUTTER ON THE LATCH

BUTTER ON THE LATCH
by Josephine Decker
Country: USA
Year: 2013
Duration: 72'


A Balkan folk festival is taking place in the woods of Mendocino, in Northern California. Isolde and Sarah enthusiastically take part in the festivities, getting carried away by its timeless atmosphere. When Sarah meets a guy she finds attractive, she decides to seduce him, breaking the equilibrium. She will discover new, unknown feelings that will plunge her into a dreamlike reality.

Biography

film director

Josephine Decker

Josephine Decker (London, UK, 1981) was nominated by “Filmmaker Magazine” as one of the twenty-five most promising independent filmmakers, and was celebrated in the prestigious magazine “New Yorker.” She made her entrance in the international film festival scene at the 2014 Berlinale in the Forum Section, presenting her two feature films Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely. In 2014, Torino Film Festival presented all her works during an homage included in Onde section program. At the Fstival she has been also part of the jury of Official Competition in 2015 and in 2017 she presented Flames, codirected with Zefrey Throwell.

FILMOGRAFIA

Naked Princeton (cm, 2005), Bi the Way (doc., 2008), Where Are You Going, Elena? (cm, 2009), Squeezebox (cm, doc., 2010), Me the Terrible (cm, 2012), Butter on the Latch (2013), Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014).



Zefrey Throwell, Josephine Decker:
Madonna Mia Violenta (cm, 2011), Flames (2017).


Declaration

film director

“I wanted to create this work with Sarah Small, a person deeply ingrained in the community and the folklore the movie would be about as well as an artist with a likeminded interest in improvisation, the deeply human, the unhinged and the unpleasant, the transcendent. Cinematically, Ashley Connor came in with an unprecedented visual style – which allowed the film to range through many emotions not simply narratively but through all of the senses. Her art made the strange aura of the film possible, and to her, I am deeply in debt.”

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura, montaggio/director, screenplay, film editing
Josephine Decker
fotografia/cinematography
Ashley Connor
suono/sound
Michael Parker Kozak, Mike Frank
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Sarah Small (Sarah), Isolde Chae-Lawrence (Isolde), Charlie Hewson (Steph)
produttori/producers
Josephine Decker, Laura Heberton
produzione/production
Third Room Productions
contatti/contacts
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