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NOVEMBER II. 2011
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M cM E N A M IN S CRYSTAL HOTEL & BALLROOM
Jesse (Blake Berris) in
House of Last Things
House Call
Acclaimed Portland filmmaker kick-
starts post-production with online
campaign
stateside from Germany, Bartlett’s newest
film is bound to draw attention. He made a
name for himself as a filmmaker with The
Little Girl Who Fell From a Tree, which won
the AFI Los Angeles International Film
Festival Best Editing Award, among numer
ous other honors, upon its 1998 release.
While currently in post-production at
Southeast Portland’s Indent Studios, the
film is finished save for sound design and
music, the costs of which Bartlett hopes to
offset with a Kickstarter campaign. The
fundraising goal of $22,000 must be met by
November 15 to be successful.
Shooting on House of Last Things was fi
nalized in October 2010, with breathtaking
contributions by cinematographer Ken Kel-
sch (Bad Lieutenant). As post wraps up, an
intense trailer is viewable at the project’s
Kickstarter page, and Bartlett has his fingers
crossed that a full release will happen soon.
“I could imagine that within six to eight
months, we might be able to see this in the
theater,” explained Bartlett. “T hat’s less
dependent on us and more dependent on
[getting a] distributor, and finding the
right moment to bring it in. Timing is
everything.”
The aftermath of an unspoken tragedy
haunts Sarah Dunne (Diane Dalton), and
her husband Allan (Randy Schulman) forces
a trip to Italy to tend to their fractured mar
riage. Kelly (Lindsay Haun, True Blood) is
set to housesit while they’re gone, and is
soon joined by her younger brother Tim (RJ
Mitte, Breaking Bad), and her boyfriend
Jesse (Blake Berris, Days o f Our Lives).
Things get real strange, real fast when Jesse
suddenly decides to kidnap 8-year-old
Adam (Micah Nelson) from the supermar
ket parking lot, and the boy’s disappearance
garners zero media coverage.
What follows in House of Last Things is a
dramatic thriller inspired by the emergence
of repressed memories and haunting imag
ery, a grown-up screen scare that digs deeper
than horror clichés.
“I enjoy putting the audience in a position
of feeling that they’re at home in a genre,
but every time they think they’re in a place
that’s familiar, it takes you somewhere else
you haven’t been,” said the film’s writer-di For more information, visit houseojlastthings..
rector, Michael Bartlett.
com. To donate to the Kickstarter campaign,
In his first U.S. project since moving back search "House of Last Things” at kickstarter.com.
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