UPSTREAM COLOR in Berlinale 2013' Panorama
A man and a woman.
Connected in more than one way.
Connected to a timeless being.
A man and a woman struggling to outline their identities.
A man and a woman collecting the pieces of their life as a scattered puzzle.
Kris, a sort of art merchant, has just made radical changes in her life when she is getting drugged by a gang of dilletant chemists. Guys that enjoy playing with plants, animals and people. Guys who enjoy playing God.
They have for instance found narcoleptical elixirs and they prelevate larvae in order to insert in the bodies of their victims...
Kris will lose feet in a story too big for her.
A long the way (during the sempiternal suburb train travels) she finds soothing in Jeff, a man consumed by a major force. They will become each other’s shelter...
The Director-Mathematician Shane Carruth is famous in the very restreint circle of art film lovers for his debut picture: “Primer”(2004). Possibly one of the few tiny masterpieces of the past decennie, telling about time travel and the related paradoxes.
“Upstream Color” is yet again the total baby of Carruth, as he has taken care of its subject, writing, production and directing, DOP and camera, also playing the male lead.
It is an obscure and even cryptical film, intertwining science fiction, thriller and romantic drama with this couple isolated from the world by a condition that only they can understand...
It is a film all played “in the spectators’head”, just as his first film was. A very demanding moment for a tired festival goer...
...But an exciting company and a good previous rest could help in letting ourselves be swapt by this groovy fable...
... about a couple connected not only by deep feelings, but also by something more, much more....
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Written, Directed & Produced by Shane Carruth
Produced by Casey Gooden, Ben LeClair
Co-Produced by Meredith Burke, Toby Halbrooks
Executive Producers Scott Douglass, Brent Goodman
Edited by David Lowery, Shane Carruth
Production Designer Thomas Walker
Director of Photography Shane Carruth
Camera Operators Shane Carruth, Casey Gooden, Hunter Holder, Bongani Mlambo, Jeff
Walker
Camera Assistant Peter Koutsogeorgas
Assistant Editors Justin Scheidt, Cameron Bruce Nelson
Post Production Assistant Lara Cristensen
Craft Services Kathy Carruth, Karen Carruth
Sound Designer Johnny Marshall
Sound Editor/Mixer Pete Horner
Production Sound Chad Chance
Additional Sound Mike Gonzalez, Jon Meyer, Nolan Theis
Original Score Shane Carruth
Biological Effects Supervisor Thomas Walker
Biological Effects Bongani Mlambo, Jeff Walker
Special Effects Make-Up Heather Henry
Casting Director Kina Bale
Walden Cover Art Darrah Gooden
Colorist Toby Halbrooks
Production Assistants Arturo Lopez, Alex Wilson, Grant Cornelison, Thomas Lumpkin
Additional Make-Up Liz McCracken, Jocelyn Lopez
Weapons Master Dick Saunders, Matt Aines
CAST
Kris Amy Seimetz
Jeff Shane Carruth
Sampler Andrew Sensenig
Thief Thiago Martins
Orchid Mother Kathy Carruth
Orchid Daughter Meredith Burke
Peter Andreon Watson
SHANE CARRUTH
Shane Carruth’s first project, “Primer,” premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film
Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. “Upstream Color” is his second film.
AMY SEIMETZ
Amy Seimetz is a writer, director, actor and producer. Her acting credits include
"The Off Hours," "Tiny Furniture," "Myth of the American Sleepover," "A Horrible Way
to Die," and "Alexander the Last." Her first feature as a director, “Sun Don’t Shine,”
premiered at the 2012 SXSW festival. She recently joined the cast of the
Christopher Guest HBO series “Family Tree.”
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