Cemeteries 'The Wilderness' by Michael Lawrence
Cemeteries – aka one man band Kyle J. Reigle from Buffalo – teams up with Michael Lawrence for this dark film for his track The Wilderness. A young man, played by Ryan Schira, breaks into a an old dusty warehouse and curiously, is enticed to burn it down by his ‘accomplice’.
“When Kyle and I first spoke about doing a film for The Wilderness, our common bond was an upbringing in the lost, abandoned, and beautiful post-industrial landscape of Buffalo, NY,” Michael explains.
“A palette of magenta and green with creeping moonlight came forth when listening to the track. We built a small narrative of a savant exploring a factory – symbolizing the cellular memory of generations past that once resided in the lakefront paper and grain mills of our hometown. The shafts of light and faint, distant memories are a view inside the cerebral cortex of two colliding versions of self.”
Credits
Director | Michael Lawrence |
Director of Photography | Elie Smolkin |
Editor | Alex Amoling |
Focus Puller | Doug Ansel |
Clapper Loader | Tessa Wienker |
Grip | Rob Pepe |
1st AD | Will Rhodes |
2nd AD | Katrin Kinnare |
Colourist | Juan Salvo |
Cast | Ryan Schira |
Writer | Michael Lawrence & Joshua Banta |
Special Thanks | Holly & Larry Maciejewski, Ryan O'Hara Theisen, Ben Gabelman, David Kruta |
Commissioner | Matt Halverson |
Lead actor | Jim Banta |
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