Do you have any idea of when the book is going to come out?
I need to finish it sooner than later. We’ve been working on it for a long time. I was up over 500 pages and just in this last year, I started editing its notes. I took about a hundred pages out. I’m kind of going through it. We’ll see. It takes time. I’m editing my film feature as well.
I wanted to ask you about that because your father is in the film, correct?
This is the first time my father and I’ve ever acted together before.
That’s really great. Are you going to follow your usual methodology of touring it around yourself?
The first two films are part of a trilogy that is extremely anti-corporate. It was designed to be uncomfortable for both the audience and — particularly my first film– for corporations. It’s an attack on the corporate thought process, so to speak. So, the new film isn’t part of the trilogy. It’s still is a high art film, I suppose you might call it, but it is not designed to have the discomfort level that the trilogy is designed to have. So, I don’t know. it’s hard to know what gets distributed and…I’ve put money into this film. This is a much more expensive film than my first two films combined. So, I have to bring a certain amount of money and I don’t know, I know the touring has kind of been a safety net even though that’s a difficult thing to do as well. But, if I were to sell it to a corporation, which is possible because again, it wasn’t designed to be anti-corporate, I’ve put a certain amount of money in that I’d have to get back, whether I would get that amount from a corporation to distribute in this climate. It’s hard to know. So, it’s possible that a little tour with it, it’s possible I’ll sell it. Anything’s possible. The first two films I knew I would tour with…this one, I don’t know.
And it’s currently untitled, correct?
Well, there is a title but I call it untitled because what I discovered is that if people have a title with things like the IMDB and the internet, they pretend they know all kinds of stuff about something and they don’t. So I keep it relatively quiet. And so if you, people don’t have a title, they can’t pretend that they know stuff.
Even though I wait until the film is released like there are stuff people put or have written about it that they think is true and there’s stuff on IMDB that is sort of accurate, but sort of inaccurate, I’ll fix it when the film is ready to release on some level. I don’t mind that the information is inaccurate on IMDB because I’ve been working, I’ve been shooting a production segment every year since 2013 until this year. This is the first year, so five years I’ve been shooting at least one production segment. And the nature of the film has changed a bit since I started. There was a script which is still a main part of the film, but there are other things that have happened within it. So if I worried about the IMDB, I would still have to go back and change things. I’ve never put something on the IMDB about the film.
“…I call it untitled because what I discovered is that if people have a title with things like the IMDB and the internet, they pretend they know all kinds of stuff…”
I want to get back to the movie (We Have Always Lived In The Castle) since that’s theoretically what we’re here for. I bought the book and I had started it because I didn’t know that this interview was even going to happen, but I wanted to read it before I saw the movie, but I didn’t get far enough.
Oh, so it was a mystery!
