![]() ![]() With regard to tone, Geoff and I see BOKEH as a quiet fable, something slightly surreal in a very real world environment. Many of us have argued with our spouse about eating the yogurts in order of expiration date, but what if there will never be yogurt again, the normal argument all of the sudden becomes amplified. Food slowly begins to rot, electricity is spotty, water is no longer a convenience, this is what Riley and Jenai have to deal with over time. You would have no rules, the world is your kingdom, but your kingdom is fraying at the seams. What would they do in that scenario? What would you do in that scenario? You would have access to everything… every car, house… everything. We wanted to tell a smaller story: what if the human population disappeared, but everything still worked? There is no destruction, no constant threat to survival, no running from an enemy… There are just two people in love with a world to themselves. End of the world stories only seem to grow in popularity, but most of them involve zombies, massive destruction and/or aliens. There are a lot of great apocalyptic, dystopian stories out there right now. How does it differ from other apocalyptic-type films? Not just in story, but tone as well. We try to avoid being jealous of those with more resources or connections, and we admire those who have little and yet find ways to make incredible art, to find ways to be evocative regardless of their means. In general, we are inspired by those that have less than us, but do more. The BBC shows have smaller budgets than American shows so their warehouses look like warehouses, they do more with less, they don’t rely on convenience or coincidence to tell stories, and they embrace their constraints and treat them as strengths. We also like a lot of the BBC shows out there now. They were the ultimate wish fulfillment stories, they were small stories tied to big concepts. One of our biggest influences is the original TWILIGHT ZONE. I pitched the initial idea on Jand we finished principal photography on June 29, 2014. ![]() We both felt the story could work given our constraints and that we could create a relevant and compelling fable. I pitched my writing and directing partner, Geoff Orthwein, a small story about two people who are deeply in love and wake up one day during a vacation in Iceland and discover that the rest of the world has vanished. We knew we would have a limited budget, limited time and limited resources, so many stories wouldn’t work given those obstacles. The idea for Bokeh came partly from constraints. Where did this idea come from? Was there something that provided inspiration for it? Another piece of cinema or a life event? The Geekiary recently had the chance to speak with Andrew Sullivan, one of the the screenwriters and directors of BOKEH (Geoffrey Orthwein being the other). From the trailer on the site, the film looks breathtaking, and the story is quite compelling. The film has finished principal photography, and is currently raising funds through a Kickstarter page to fund the post-production editing. It stars Maika Monroe (THE BLING RING) and Matt O’Leary (THE LONE RANGER). It follows the story of a young couple on holiday there, when suddenly every other human being vanishes. BOKEH is a new science fiction film filmed in Iceland. ![]()
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