About the film

Sometime in early summer, 2014, Joe decided it would be fun to make a 48 Hour Film Project film by himself.  And by himself, of course, he meant with Julie’s help.  It was almost a year before either Washington or Baltimore’s competitions, but on looking at the 48HFP website, Joe found that Richmond was having a competition in just a few weeks.  So Joe entered.

This may not have been the smartest thing Joe ever did.  It was a crazy weekend, and Joe didn’t sleep at all on Saturday night, staying up for 40 hours straight.  He did a whole lot for the movie – wrote, directed, played nine different parts, and edited.  And Julie helped a great deal, making a key contribution to the brainstorming, doing superb prop work, and setting up several beautiful shots.  And when the dust had settled, they had made a movie.

The assignment was:

• Make a film noir
• With Pete or Peggy Wiltz, Architect
• Including flowers
• With the line “You haven’t got a clue, do you.”

This is not the version we entered.  This includes another week’s efforts, mostly editing, some sound work, and reshooting one scene and a couple of pickups.  But the core story is the same, and most of the scenes you see here were shot in that one crazy weekend.