Tone Poem

The Captive Man - Episode 10: Tone Poem from Christopher Kim on Vimeo.

Thank you to our special guest star Moon Ray for her able assistance.  I forgot how fun it can be to make films with, y'know, humans.

The film-within-the-film you see here is based on my college efforts.  I suppose in the universe of The Captive Man, the character of Chris Kim never evolved beyond his film school style.  Most of my film school shorts followed a similar formula: black-and-white photography, no dialogue, lots of ridiculously overwritten voiceover.  The plots varied.  One was about an Asian guy who wakes up one day to discover that he's turned white, another was an unbelievably convoluted story about a rain god and a mystical girl who only appears when it rains.  I know these sound like sketch ideas but I assure you these stories were approached with unshakeable sincerity.  Hey.  Shut the hell up.  It was film school.

I could never, and will never, watch those films again.  To my credit, I really went for it each time.  Just be glad that I'm no longer making such self-absorbed films.  Now onto the show entirely about me!