Choosing to create a one take video on 16mm proved to be a challenging but fun experience. Given how expensive film can be, some immense preparation and a whole lot of rehearsal was necessary to make this come together as smoothly as it did. Plus, it was just fun to create the story of a strange primal man facing his old life. We were aiming for weird but not too weird.

You know what probably was too weird? I’ll paint you a scene: imagine two friendly hikers going on a gentle afternoon stroll through the woods and seeing a gigantic man-nest among the trees. “How peculiar” one might have said to the other before being all too ready to forget it ever happened. At that moment though a naked man clutching cake bursts out along with a burly camera operator and, out of nowhere, a strange dog who’s more interested in cake than set etiquette. So there you have a man in a loincloth, batting away a cake fiend of a dog, all while it’s caught on crisp 16mm film for far too long before ‘cut’ was yelled.

The moral of the story is that blocking off sets in a forest will always need more hands than you think. And dogs are slippery.

Too slippery.