Earlier this year I was pretty impressed with Jay Cheel’s dramatized documentary The Goblin Man of Norway (which you can see in its entirety at the NFC).
Jay has been working on a new short film titled Colore Non Vedenti and documenting the steps using a very good production blog and now, the film has its first teaser trailer (of sorts).
There appears to be a bit more work to be done on the film itself (approximately 1/3rd still to be shot) and as far as I can tell from this teaser, it’s looking pretty sweet. The title, which my vague Italian translation puts at something like Colour Not Seen combined with the green jelly certainly suggests something weird going on but what I love most about Jay’s films are the aesthetics and the music and both are pretty stunning in this short clip.
At some point we’ll likely get another trailer (and perhaps a synopsis) but for the time being, you can revel in the greatness of the teaser clip which below.
I watched “WILD BLUE YONDER” the other night, and I was struck that that may have been the creative template of GOBLIN MAN OF NORWAY (and Google confirms this), it is interesting how the ‘real footage’ has been assembled into a totally different type of film (The subtitle-card calls it “A Science Fantasy”). Kudos on Jay for actually one-uping Herzog at his own game. Goblin Man actually plays better than WBY, even with Brad Dourif doing his best alien impression (he’s great at it, and brings the funny beautifully here), although not quite as deadpan as the line “I work with Geomorphologists without Borders” ha.
One thing Wild Blue Yonder succeeds at in spades is crafting the magnificent and the mundane into a drifting Solyaris-type fever dream. Well worth a look, but you will be (liked) bored at one point or another watching the astronauts make home movies of each other. He pushes WBY a bit too much in the direction he wants to go and the footage cannot quite sustain it all the time.
This trailer is awesome. Very John Carpenter-esque. I read a very rough draft of the script and it looks like it’s a lot of fun.
Kurt, picked up WBY on eBay today. Should arrive around the weekend, so I’m excited to check it out.
It is really two films in one. Poetic musically scored space/underwater footage on one hand. And quirky deadpan and simply entertaining Brad Dourif monologue on the other hand. The two don’t always gel, but at 82 minutes, it’s worth the time to dwell in that strange little world.
Wild Blue Yonder was definitely a major influence. I actually used that film as an example when I pitched the idea. It’s not for everyone, but it definitely has fun with the documentary format. And of course, Brad Dourif rules.
Thanks for posting this Marina. I plan to write up a synopsis in the near future. (Probably should’ve had one to accompany this video. Would’ve helped make some sense of it) I just hate writing those things!
I’ll start you off Jay: “In a world where…”