Living in Oblivion

English, Media Studies, Film Studies, Moving Image Arts
Key Stage 4, post-16
You can use Tom De Cillo’s amusing indie film about the making of an indie film as an introduction to alternative cinema, and also for considering film narrative. The film plays with convention (particularly in the way it depicts dreams and dream sequences) and there’s an extraordinary scene where Catherine Keener shows what a great actor she is by giving subtly differing performances of the same scene. Steve Buscemi is the harrassed indie director.

The book ‘Living in Oblivion and Eating Crow’ (bottom) includes the screenplay and DiCillo’s production diary.

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