Making Venus (2002)
Synopsis
Making Venus is a ‘making of’ documentary about the production of a low budget feature film. Initially, the documentary sets out to record the development, funding, production and release of a feature film. Because of the low budget of the film and the inexperience of the crew, it turned out to be five years of torture, ending with the producers personally owing $1 million to investors and an almost unreleasable film. The documentary employs an observational style with intertitles for supplementary information and interviews with the victims involved.
Curator’s notes
Making Venus records, in exquisitely painful detail, the worst things that can happen when people set out to make an under-budgeted, ill-prepared film. The tragedy of the whole doomed exercise is made more terrible because the documentary is so entertaining. The worse things get for the feature film, the better the documentary becomes. Producer Tom Zubrycki’s credits include Molly and Mobarak, The Diplomat, Exile in Sarajevo and Billal.
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