The Artist from Tom Krymkowski on Vimeo.

Brian Doom:

• Director
• Co-Producer: Schedule, Locations, Music, Post-Production

Plot Summary

Milo loves his paintings, but hates selling them. His wife Maureen thinks he’s going to be the Next Big Thing, if only he can get the right opportunity. An opportunity like meeting Geraldine.

Geraldine loves art. Especially art by dead artists. Some people make art; Geraldine makes dead artists.

Background

Produced as our submission to Round 4 of Scary Cow. “The Artist” is intended to be the first ten minutes of a hypothetical feature movie, as written by Sara James.

For my interpretation, I was going for a 1940’s flavor with some modern elements. Actually, it’s an even split: the villains are from the 1940’s with a bit of Film Noir thrown in, the protagonists are meant to be modern. My concept was that these two worlds collide, and the villains would be playing by a different set of rules than the heroes! I tweaked some of the lines a bit to reflect this, but the plot remained intact.

Samir Sinha was my DP, with Tom Krymkowski on camera. Edited by Jennifer Griffin (with nagging from me), lit by Rich Wells.