So I missed posting some creative work last week. Totally my bad — it was all queued up and ready to go and my Friday-Monday got a bit sidetracked. More on that later.

To make up for it, I’m throwing up last week’s movie plus this week’s one at the same time. These are two more of the 4 from that USC class that ’stubble’ came out of.

‘Block’ was the third film shot and I will be the firs to admit that it doesn’t totally jibe the way I wanted it to. It fits, logically, into the work I was producing at the time — surreal with static shots, alternating between extreme close-ups and large voids of negative space. Narratively, it evokes a dream, though I wish it felt a bit more coherent.

block from tripp millican on Vimeo.

The fourth movie is “The Makeout Queen.” I had the title long before I had the film and, again, as has been the case in many of more ambitious stories, the execution fell short of the original script. In this case, it turned out to be far too difficult to find random people who were willing to kiss a stranger. Valerie also had a zit on her chin — I hadn’t noticed and we seriously had to crit this in class. The ending rubbed my teacher the wrong way, but I think it was because he was hoping for more. (People thought I had put the credits in the middle of the movie and were all ready for 3 minutes more of some torrid affair. I much preferred to tease it, which turned out to disappoint in anyway.)

As was also the case by then, all the dialog is improvised. With both of these films — anything said onscreen is made up, anything said off-screen was scripted.

the makeout queen from tripp millican on Vimeo.

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