What happens when you spend lockdown with a ghost in the Hollywood Hills?
No, it’s not hell, it’s the Baxter-Hodiak house. You know, where the ghost of 1940s-era MGM party-boy John Hodiak roams the premises? Now imagine you can’t leave. All you’ve got is some Super 8 film, an iPhone, and a Blackmagic Pocket 6K.
For director Alexandra Velasco (who was stuck in the haunted house) and DP Thaïs Castralli (who was sent back to Brazil in immigration purgatory), navigating this pandemic as immigrant women was almost psychological horror in itself. Here’s how they channeled that into a short film rooted in imagination and experimenting with the rules of filmmaking, called The Seventh Circle.
No Film School: Where did you get the idea to make The Seventh Circle?
Author: Oakley Anderson-Moore
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
