IN Max Walker-Silverman’s “reconstruction,” Josh O’Connor plays a Colorado Rancher who has to adapt to life after devastating wildfire destroys his home. It’s one film It feels deeply relevant for reasons that do not require any explanation, but the emergence of the idea came from a tragic experience in Walker-Silverman’s own life that saw the community in his Colorado-Hemstad Rally around his family.
“For me it was born in a summer where I just moved home, back to Colorado after being away for a while. It was a tough summer, it was dry, the city felt like it was fighting. There was Smokey, there were fires everywhere, ”said Walker-Silverman during a visit to the IndieWire studio at SundancePresented by Dropbox. “My grandmother’s house burned that summer, which was devastating, but also became this magical thing that brought the family in a way, led our neighbors in a way. There was a loss in it, but also an incredible outflow of kindness as well. Through that experience, I began to see how there could be a future in what felt like a very uncertain place. ”
In a time then Everyone is looking for guidance About how to heal from natural disasters, Walker-Silverman explained that he hopes his film is predictable for a swing against compassion and optimism from humanity.
“This movie was an attempt to imagine what it might look like. Maybe that’s what it will be and maybe that’s what it will not, but that’s what I hope it will be. And it is a future there, through the really hard changes that we will all face, whether they are fires or floods or something else, there is hope that people will meet afterwards. ”
O’Connor explained that, given how personal the material was for its director, it was impossible to distinguish the story from the Colorado landscape where they shot.
“For me it is always about how you can suit yourself in an environment in which you are character. Fortunately, a maximum has such a great understanding of the landscape and the area,” said O’Connor. “We shot continuously. All things that take place in the FEMA camp were continuously. So we were at this place for two weeks … every person on this movie, whether it is role, crew, production, we were all in it together. And they came to these two weeks in this FEMA camp where we lived in the desert and lived on top of each other. ”
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