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Cyn Director: Alex Ferrari
Anyway, as one expects from Alex, Cyn is desperately stylish and enormously professional. Basically, two gangsters have to guard a female prisoner, who turns the tables on them. That’s, well, that’s about it unless you want a shot-by-shot description. Cyn looks super thanks to the excellent work of cinematographer Egon Stephan Jr (who will probably never have a cooler credit in my eyes than Second Assistant Camera on Revenge of the Nerds II). Unfortunately the sound’s not so great and I found some of the dialogue hard to hear. And I’m not convinced about the practicalities of what happens right at the end - whether one could do it and whether one could survive doing it - but this is a slightly stylised world so I’ll let it ride. What is frustrating is the brevity of Cyn. It’s just a moment in time and there is so much more possibility. The situation could have leant itself to a good ten or fifteen minutes of tension as the gangsters - and the audience - question the girl’s motives, words and actions. Cyn is simply over too fast. Not that there is a lot that Alex could have done about this, as Cyn was the result of reaching the top 100 in the TV show On the Lot, which seems to be a sort of Spielberg-backed Pop Idol for film-makers. Alex and chums were given just six days to make the film and, very impressively, brought it in on schedule for under a thousand bucks. As usual, Alex Ferrari has gone overboard on behind-the-scenes stuff, not out of self-indulgence but in a genuine effort to help other film-makers. There is a lot of information about Cyn on the movie’s packed website including the fact that it is derived from Alex’s feature-length script Red Princess Blues. For what it is, Cyn is top-notch, but it’s just a tease, a taster that makes me want to see Alex Ferrari go to town on something with real depth. MJS rating: A- | ||
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The latest short from Alex Ferrari, director of the justifiably highly acclaimed