Matinee

This is the one that started it all. Filmed during the summer between our junior and senior years, Matinee marks the dividing line between us messing around with a camera and making serious attempts at cinema. Whenever we showed this film, we'd ask the audience what they thought it meant. No two people answered the same way, and that included those of us who made it.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• super8
• film
• philosophy
• insecurity
• escape
• suicide
• depression
• vallejo

[Astrobeej]

According to the Empress schedules I still have, we shot the opening sequence on May 2nd, 1981, as the noon matinee show was letting out.

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It was great to see this after so many years -- TJH