6 Points with Nick Fox-Gieg
Submitted by szucker on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 12:28Nick Fox-Gieg, Director of SFJFF's featured online short THE ORANGE, opened up to SFJFF about his inspiration, his challenges, and his thoughts on gefilte fish. Click here to watch the orange online now.
What inspired you to make this film?
In early 2005, I went to a themed party where everyone was required to bring one page of text to read aloud. I'd forgotten to bring anything, but fortunately I'd just read Benjamin Rosenbaum's (very short) short story "The Orange" online that morning. So I printed it out and read it--and the response was so enthusiastic that I thought I'd ask the author for permission to turn it into a film.
What was your greatest challenge during the filmmaking process?
Figuring out how to deal with the rapidly-changing setting was the hardest part--the narration zips all over the place in just a couple minutes. I ended up telling the story, or at least most of it, in one continuous shot.
Any thoughts you’d like to share about screening this film in a Jewish context?
I've come up with at least three possible religious interpretations of the story, but I've decided it was meant to stay mysterious.
What film/media has inspired you lately?
I'm a big fan of "Sita Sings the Blues." In addition to the merits of the film itself, it's a feature-length animation produced on a tiny budget while successfully fighting a dubious copyright claim--inspiring stuff.
What do you do when you’re not filmmaking?
After thinking about this for a minute or two, I gave up.
Lastly, gefilte fish: delicious, or disgusting?
It's one of those things that's got to be made just right, I think--in which case, delicious.
Nick Fox-Gieg is an animator and video artist based in Toronto. His short films have been shown at the Rotterdam and Ottawa film festivals, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and on CBC TV. His projections have been featured in the Festival d'Avignon production Boxed In and the Broadway musical Squonk; he's performed his live sound and video works at the Paradiso in Amsterdam and the Redcat Theater in Los Angeles.
Fox-Gieg received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2004, and his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999. He's received a Bravo!FACT commission, three U.S. state Media Arts Fellowships, and a Fulbright grant to the Netherlands; he was awarded Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council Media Artist grants in 2009.
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I have watched this movie & I can tell that, it's really a good one.
It's discussing many social subjects which are the core of our daily life.
While keeping the religious interpretations of the story mysterious has created a suspense & mind thinking while watching the movie.
I would like to say, good work, keep it up.
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Hello Fox-Gieg!
I am your biggest imaginary fan :)
Big love from Imaginary Friend :)