Movie Details
Original Language:English
Cast & Crew
J
Joe Stankus
Director
J
Joe Stankus
Editor
J
Joe Stankus
Writer
The Backseat
8 minDocumentary
Plot
The Backseat was made using a combination of documentary and fiction filmmaking techniques We enlisted our own family members to portray versions of themselves and constructed a fictional situation in hopes of evoking very real conflicts and relationship dynamics The performers all of which are nonactors were never given scripts or made aware of the full storyarc that we as the directors had preplanned Drawing inspiration from the direct cinema of the Maysles and fiction films like The Blair Witch Project it is our intention to blur the viewers concept of reality and invite them into a world that feels real and honest while still providing the emotional beats and traditional plot elements of a conventional narrative