The
Fantasia International Film Festival (Fantasia) will unveil the world premiere screening of mumblecore icon
Joe Swanberg's recently completed
24 Exposures (2013) as part of its Camera Lucida section. The feature stars filmmaker
Adam Wingard (who, at 19, premiered his first film,
Home Sick, at Fantasia) and his constant collaborator
Simon Barrett, the director / screenwriter duo behind
A Horrible Way To Die (2010) and
You're Next (2011). On his
Twitter feed, Swanberg describes
24 Exposures as his "fantasy version of Godard directing a Zalmon King script for
Showtime in 1991," and his "fever dream of Herzog directing episodes of
Red Shoe Diaries and
Silk Stalkings."
Wingard, a gifted cinematographer who also lensed Swanberg's
Silver Bullets (2011), plays a fetish photographer whose models begin to turn up dead, with Barrett portraying a melancholic cop tasked with investigating him. Swanberg, director of
Alexander the Last (2009) and
Drinking Buddies (2013), previously collaborated with Wingard and Barrett on
Autoerotic (2011) and the anthology horror hit
V/H/S (2012). As an actor, Swanberg also collaborated with the filmmakers several times, playing lead roles in
A Horrible Way To Die and
You're Next, the latter exhibiting Swanberg's consummate comic timing.
On a related note, Fantasia 2013 will showcase the Quebec Premiere of Wingard's brilliant
You're Next the night before
24 Exposures, offering their audience the rare chance to observe the flipping of an actor / director / screenwriter creative relationship from one night to the next. Joe Swanberg will host both screenings.
The Wayback Machine takes us to
an Evening Class conversation with Wingard, Barrett and Swanberg when
A Horrible Way To Die had its world premiere in the Vanguard sidebar at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.
