Director of Medusa Deluxe, Thomas Hardiman, spoke about his audacious one-take whodunnit set in a hairdressing salon, about blowing up walls with dynamite, baby agents of chaos, and working with music producer Koreless.
Connor Lightbody: First of all, I have to ask the obvious…Why did you choose to do this in one take, which is a lot to start off with especially as your debut feature?
Thomas Hardiman: I always think of them as long takes I guess because you’re sewing them together. I had this thing in my head where my nieces were watching these long YouTube videos of makeup and hairstyling tutorials where there was no cut and they were getting used to that and that’s how they experienced the media they watched. It would be someone walking around their room and I was kind of looking at it like how does that influence storytelling? How does that be something? The thing I’m into is how you pick up a camera today and can feel like you’re a contemporary film maker? How do you respond to changes in society, changes in technology and push the boundaries of filmmaking? So I wanted to look at murder mystery and if you stay with it beyond the point you’ve had the red herring, or after you’ve reached the point of that crucial detail, it becomes a character-led drama rather than a murder mystery and that is what I’m interested in. I love NASHVILLE, I love Robert Altman and I was trying to kind of push it in that direction and kind of somewhere new.
This interview was posted August 10th 2023. Full interview linked below.
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