I made this film entirely in quarantine with my girlfriend Seyna, whom I live with, using only the resources around us. I wrote, directed, DP-ed, produced, operated, production designed, choreographed, and starred in it…We made the entire thing remotely- all props, costumes, camera equipment bought online and delivered by Amazon. Shot on my iphone 8 plus with the 8mm app.
I wanted to keep that creative part of the brain ticking so I wrote a short story about a month ago called “All Alone in April” as a reaction to what I was seeing around the world at the time, which was just a lot of loneliness, solitude, and boredom. I made it my goal to turn it into a film- It was going to be a filmmaking experiment, an exercise of will- knowing full well of all the challenges against us with everything being shutdown and of course, no budget.
Seyna still had her job and was working remotely in the back room throughout quarantine, so we shot over a two week period- a couple hours each day on her lunch breaks and after work. It was our way of coping with the pandemic and keeping our minds occupied as a way to distract ourselves from everything that was happening in the world around us.
It's a 10 minute long silent film set in the not too distant future about love in the time of Quarantine about a lonely widow quarantining alone as the apocalypse occurs outside her window. The story is set in the not too distant future, recognizable as now but not quite reality as we know it…Everything is shot in my house with a few other scenes shot in my neighborhood of Venice Beach. Overall, it was an incredibly rewarding experience which gave me meaning and purpose through these uncertain and anxious times.
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