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‘Dead Lover’: How Director Grace Glowicki Pulled Off the Grotesque Indie Romance With Dollar Store Lights, Kiddie Pools and a Single Zoom Lens
Director, star and writer Grace Glowicki breaks down how she made 'Dead Lover' using dollar store equipment, kiddie pools and a single zoom lens.
In the case of “ Dead Lover,” which follows a helplessly lonely (and smelly) gravedigger who reanimates her filth-positive beau using only his detached finger, indie film power couple Grace Glowicki and Ben Petrie drew inspiration from community theater, German Expressionism and their friend’s nightmare about his sentient severed penis. After a “diarrhea draft” was complete, Glowicki gathered up a group of her theater friends, one an “experimental dancer” the other “a clown,” and “dicked around” to see what would evolve from the still nascent film. The opaque backdrops give “Dead Lover” an endlessly surreal look, completely removing the viewer from space and time, while also serving as a celebration of live performance.
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