Jack & Jill   16mm 1.33:1 1999 | Director: Eric Heisner

Jack & Jill, Directed by Eric Heisner, was shot on location in Northern Illionis and Wisconsin. 

This film garnered its primer at the Long Beach International Film Fest 2001 and winner in the catagory “Best of Show” Albert P. Weisman Scholarship 2001.  The challenging locations varied from the period steam train in Wisconsin, the 1920's street scene at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, and the rural dirt roads of Northen Illionis. 

To achieve the unique peoiod look cinematographer Dan Farnam shot with a 1922 Kodak Cine-Special Hand Crank 16mm camera.  The lack of coatings on the lens produced soft glowing flairs combined with the crank pace gave a very real rendition on how the films of that day felt.  For the last sequence of the film again we used Andy Hare's Cheverloet adorned with the just married sign and rattling cans in tow.  The camera and operator boomed up on the jib just as the car was passing below then as expected the image iris's down to black.  This effect came from a very crude mock up of a leko spotlight iris on the front rails of the mattebox on the camera.  Just as the car made its way down the stretch of dirt road and while still cranking the camera Dan maunally rotated the iris closed for the desired effect.

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