Director: Chris
Davison
Adaptation:
Chris Davison
Producer:
Mike Buchard & Charles Lew
Sound: Birgit Doll
Director of Photography:
Heather Schmidt
Rose -
Clare Salstrom Steve - Joe Cipriani
The film resulted from an
assignment given to me during film school at UCLA earlier this year,
the professor told me that I had to shoot a film without any
artistic flourishes like focus pulls or unusual angles, no fancy
camera movements, etc, he told me to find an unproduced play that I
could shoot in a sparse, bleak visual style and “The Web” fit the
bill perfectly. I also picked it since I think it’s a good early
look at an upcoming body of work, with key themes of despair and
nihilism, written many years before the Pulitzer- and Nobel-prize
winners. We completed principal photography in three hours of one
day since that’s how long we had access to the location, the actors
were recommended by classmates at UCLA and my fellow students
operated the camera, the sound boom, etc. While on-set I worked
mostly with the actors to help them find truth in their performances
(which they did, they’re both really good) and then I did the
postproduction work. One interesting factoid: we shot this in August
in Redondo Beach, on a bright sunny day at the beach so it was a bit
of a push to create a dark, rainy New York atmosphere!
