Dear Conrad 2

Dear Conrad is a film made by the Film 2 class at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. It was filmed by all the students in the class, and transfered to HD by Cinelab.

This films shows the everyday life of "Machel", a mother who is capable to do anything to sustain his son  "Jaromee",  who doesn't seem to appreciate it. This story shows very dramatic scenes in a desperate's woman life, from potato peeling and daydreaming, to prostitution.

It was filmed by an Arri SLR camera, and 16mm color stock.

My favorite scene is the one where the mother is dancing alone in the living room, and suddenly starts to imagine that all her friends are there dancing and having fun with her. I think that every person is a great dancer in that scene, specially the guy with the cool glasses "Kurain" who seems to be having a lot of fun. I found curious that Kurain looks very much like one of "Machel" regular clients.

I also found funny and quite ironic that the other Machel's regular costumer, "Search a.k.a. Conrad", is taken to a prostitute by her mother "Dylia", whose character makes me feel very bad about being married... Making food from scratch?? Poor woman.

I think that Jaromee is the weirdest character in this film, he always looks like he hates his mother, and his favorite bed time story is the one about a little kid who sucks his thumbs.

Interesting facts of the making of the film:

+The director Joe Saliva disappeared in the middle of the filming of this movie, and nobody knew about him until days later, when was found through Google Earth riding elephants in India.

+One of the girls that worked on the production "Londa", wanted to be in the film so badly that she made a cameo appearance in one of the kitchen scenes, "as if by magic".

+When the negatives of the film where sent to Cinelab to process, a gorilla kidnapped the cinelab box, so the students from SMFA didn't get film back until 3 or 4 weeks later, when the gorilla agreed to exchange the film stock for bananas.

+A computer disappeared during the break of the filming process. The workers from 16 Greenough Productions are still looking for it. Everyone wishes the robbers have taken the main computer from the editing room, instead of the one that was stolen.


I really enjoyed this film, even though the production went through many things, the final product is really awesome, the 16 Greenough is full of Imogination.

Some famous critique reviews on this film include:

"Incredibly weird and boring, perfect for a film festival!" -- Valuska F Marilhuana
"The best potato peeling I have ever seen" -- Loriana Molina
"Thanks God the hacksaw didn't not come out in the film" --Arri SLR's Magazine
"The sounds of the doorbells are incredible!" --Shasley and Belshy

Love for everybody.

PS: This is my 12th post, I hoped you guys liked it.

Valeska