E-Mail This Story

From (your email address)

To (your friend's email address)

Subject The Girl Who Went Away shows at IFS on Tue November 3, 7:30 PM

Your comments:

The Girl Who Went Away
Filmmaker Emett Casey in person
Tue November 3
7:30 PM

Upon learning of her family curse, thirteen-year-old Vee runs away to live in the mountains where the veil is the thinnest and magic more present. Sixteen years later the brother she left behind, Callum, attempts writing her a letter while juggling his mundane responsibilities and resisting his belief in the same family curse. Jumping between time periods, genres and styles, this arthouse fantasy plays out like a narrative poem, with as much interest in gesture, rhythm, texture and tone as with narrative conventions.

Shot on a shoestring budget over three years, with a crew never exceeding five people, the film was photographed on a variety of stressed and expired films stocks - from Super8 to 35mm. Overseeing the complete process, Emett Casey wrote, produced, directed, shot, mixed, edited, and mastered the film. He also created the wardrobe, the creatures and puppets used in the film, and even processed and scanned the film stock himself while working at a film lab. This culminates in a unique and singular vision unlike most other films out there today.

To see a trailer and read a review, visit InternationalFilmSeries.com.

Send me a copy too