It was like the idea of having the visuals, that Scott and I talked a lot about, that should really become psyche. We took the score and ran it through video recorders to degrade it. How can we use those tools to create this feeling of anxiety? We updated it using story and what happens in the story and the structural elements of the narrative but the photography and everything needed to feel like it was perhaps really prescient in an earlier time.īen Lovett also did that with the score.
It was a matter of recreating that vibe but also looking at Vilmos Zsigmond's work in Blow Out, which was a completely different form of cinematography than what Gordon Willis was doing. Gordon Willis, being the cinematographer for Alan Pakula's paranoia trilogy, is one of the greats of all time. This movie is definitely trying to take the form of '70s paranoia conspiracy thrillers. With this film dealing with analog film as opposed to our digital world, how was it developing the cinematographer for this film with Director of Photography Scott Thiele? I needed to know why am I so freaked about this and that really drew me into this in the same way as going down a rabbit hole about a broadcast signal intrusion - an unsolved mystery, like the Max Headroom incident, that starts as a curiosity and then becomes a fascination.
It wasn't a phobia I have but there was something about videotapes and even something about things that have an uncanny valley, a unsettlingness because there's just something off about them.
My horror director friends and I speak about them the way I think comedians talk about jokes, instead of being scared, just going, "Oh, that's scary!" But this material really unsettled me and I wanted to know more and investigate this feeling further because I couldn't put my finger on it. I'm not really squeamish and I don't really get freaked out by horror movies on a deep level: it's more of an analytical thing or appreciating it on an art level. Jacob Gentry: I felt very unsettled by the material and I didn't know why I was unsettled by it. What was it about this script and project that really intrigued you, Jacob?
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