We have very recently welcomed Jan onto our roster and so we're taking the time right here on the blog to get a better look at his work.
Next up is "Cigarette Break"
Jan says:
"The idea for the movie came to me just before I quit smoking. Preparing it I tried to follow Kieslowski's documentaries rule, based on approaching the characters of the movie a week before shooting and making them familiar with the questions they're going to be asked."
It's a bit of a cliché to say often the best ideas are the most simple, but "Cigarette Break' is great example of the best of ideas being the most simple. With one question ("what do you think about when you're having a cigarette?") and Jan manages to solicit an amazing (bizarre?) set of answers from a diverse number of people, that hint at much more then smoking as we delve into little pockets of people's lives. The pick of the bunch are the cabbie at 0.15 followed by the woman with the whole heap of drama at 0.20.
Jan's entire Nice Shirt reel can be seen here, and we'll be featuring more from him throughout the week!
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