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       OneDreamRush: Last Night (2009)
       By: Sylwia Date: January 6, 2018, 1:58 pm
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       42×42 Film Festival – 42 Filmmakers make 42 second films for 42
       Below.
       [quote]STATEMENT:
       Sometimes I have these dreams where I am about to die or cross
       over to another place and I consciously have to say to myself
       “Taika, go back to your body before it’s too late”. I’m not sure
       if you can actually die in a dream but I think the opportunity
       to leave for a while is there. This film might be about that
       kind of thing, or not. I don’t really have a clue.[/quote]
       From A Quick Chat With Taika Waititi on Flicks.co.nz (link
       unavailable):
       [quote]For Taika, the challenge was to get the tone right when
       making something about dreams.
       “It’s really hard not to be pretentious,” he says. “And it’s
       hard not to be too irreverent, you know? It’s hard to take it
       seriously. I feel it would be really easy just to take the piss
       and make something that’s a bit stupid and have a laugh. Which
       is fine, but I think I was trying to make something a little bit
       more honest than what I would usually do if it was like a
       48-hour challenge or something.”
       […] the time limit was difficult. Taika says that the challenge
       lies in “making something that isn’t too boring. It feels that
       even with 42 seconds you can have really long dead spots. It
       will just drag on. It’s also longer than a commercial. I think,
       in 30 seconds, you can do it. But between 30 seconds and a
       minute is difficult.”
       Taika’s short features a combination of in-camera effects
       trickery (no computers were used) – something he’s fond of
       doing, but feels doesn’t work for longer projects.
       “I try to do a lot of in-camera tricks and stuff in music videos
       and try and be a little bit more visually creative. But in a
       feature you can’t really get away with it as much because it
       pulls the audience down too much. You know, when you start
       getting too tricky like that you sort of lose the audience –
       they start kind of thinking: ‘oh shit, how did you do that?’ I
       don’t think I’m good enough to be able to incorporate something
       that stylistic into a proper narrative.”[/quote]
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       Re: OneDreamRush: Last Night (2009)
       By: Penguin022 Date: January 6, 2018, 5:08 pm
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       Always loved this video and how even 42 seconds can somehow have
       a bit of Taika's style.
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       Re: OneDreamRush: Last Night (2009)
       By: Sylwia Date: January 7, 2018, 8:13 am
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       [quote author=Penguin022 link=topic=23.msg35#msg35
       date=1515280105]
       Always loved this video and how even 42 seconds can somehow have
       a bit of Taika's style.
       [/quote]
       Whatever contains Taika, it's got Taika style. Could be a photo
       or a split second. :)
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