How did you decide on the film’s aesthetic?
It’s interesting because I just started shooting with Brit to try and find the aesthetic, but I knew I wanted it to be like a documentary. I wanted it to feel more naturalistic, a poetic realism. There’s a sensual aspect to filmmaking you can find, and it opens up a different part of your mind besides just the eyes and the ears, so I look for that a lot.
How did you come up with the film’s concept?
I was making all this video art, and I made a piece where I interviewed myself and then I also made a piece where I put an earth up in the sky, very simple. I’m big into the tech, I like touching and playing and editing and shooting, so I was experimenting and I composted another earth in the sky that looked authentic and real, and I was like, alright this is interesting. And Brit and I were talking about the emotional side, which is the confrontation of the self. I wanted people to leave the theatre and look up and be like, Is there another earth up there?
