I was recently blown away by writer/director Zack Wilcox's impressive directorial debut Hunting Lands (review) which tells the story of a man who is trying to disconnect from society only to find himself drawn back into it, and dealing with one of society's scummiest individuals.
Wilcox's movie is bold and risky and he tells his story with minimal dialogue to maximum effectiveness with the help of actor Marshall Cook and cinematographer Edwin Stevens.
I recently had a chance to pose some questions to Wilcox about the project, and we started with some insight into the origins of the movie and if it was always intended as such a visual film.
Look for Hunting Lands pl...
Wilcox's movie is bold and risky and he tells his story with minimal dialogue to maximum effectiveness with the help of actor Marshall Cook and cinematographer Edwin Stevens.
I recently had a chance to pose some questions to Wilcox about the project, and we started with some insight into the origins of the movie and if it was always intended as such a visual film.
Look for Hunting Lands pl...
- 5/8/2018
- QuietEarth.us
From an established filmmaker, Hunting Lands would be a risky proposition but as a debut feature, it marks the emergence of a new filmmaker to watch.
Frank Olsen is a man searching for solitude. He's rebuilt the family cabin from the ground up and moved in full time, in part as an escape from his wealthy family and in part as a coping mechanism for Ptsd. While out on a hunt, he comes across a truck dumping something in the woods. Out of curiosity, he decides to investigate only to discover that the tarp is wrapped around a badly beaten woman who has been left for dead.
For some inexplicable reason, he takes her in, gets her looked after and then sets off to find the man who left her in the woods. And so, for a large swath of Hunting Lands, we follow Frank as he trac...
Frank Olsen is a man searching for solitude. He's rebuilt the family cabin from the ground up and moved in full time, in part as an escape from his wealthy family and in part as a coping mechanism for Ptsd. While out on a hunt, he comes across a truck dumping something in the woods. Out of curiosity, he decides to investigate only to discover that the tarp is wrapped around a badly beaten woman who has been left for dead.
For some inexplicable reason, he takes her in, gets her looked after and then sets off to find the man who left her in the woods. And so, for a large swath of Hunting Lands, we follow Frank as he trac...
- 5/3/2018
- QuietEarth.us
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