- tech specs:
- Camera Moviecam LT,
- super 35mm Fuji Eterna
- Cook lenses, Super Zeiss lenses (spherical lenses)
- format: anamorphic
Screened at the 47th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Alex, a Greek diver who lives in New Orleans receives a message to go to a secret location and dive to retrieve a hidden treasure which he does’nt know what it is. So, begins the journey to the north but simultaneously his old love journeys from Greece to meet him.
Loosely based upon the Odyssey Forget Me Not is a road/boat movie. It is a film about exploring but also about the friction between two worlds: the one of exploration and the other of belonging somewhere. Both worlds briefly interact but follow their own course.
Watch trailer #1
Turner’s paintings were the starting point in search for an aesthetic approach to this film.
Drops on the lens produce these fantastic impressionistic shapes.
The Pope – a rock formation somewhere near St. Paul’s island, Bering sea.
Inside Pukuk’s engine room.
Watch the making of
A very interesting article on Forget Me Not by Petros Alexiou in Senses of Cinema
Zen and the art of cinematography 