The Distraction | A Short Film About Anxiety & Depression from Matty Brown

Welcome to your anxiety assault. A 10-minute brief checking out the disorienting and really natural world of dealing with extreme stress and anxiety as well as clinical depression.

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THE DISTRACTION
Directed by Matty Brown
https://www.mattybrownfilms.com/

Excerpt: “Matty Brown in an unique skill– though that hasn’t stopped his many impersonators for many years. In a 2015 review of his auto-biographical brief, A Colorful Life, Ivan Kander called him a “Vimeo superstar”, as well as also more so than his document 18 Staff Picks, it was because of his story. Brown is a true embodiment of the magnificence days of the system’s imaginative neighborhood, a hobbyist inapplicable from the sector who made earnest, psychological work that maximized the democratization that DSLRs and also powerful computer systems presented to image-making. With a true DiY spirit he understood a hallmark style: quick cuts, rapid cam whips, and also creative usage of foreground elements (frequently just his fingers over the lens) to create an experience of consistent activity– a visceral rush that supplied energy to his traveling videos, tone rhymes, and easy profile documentaries. His approach was extremely popular, generating scores of homages, as well as ideal of all? his techniques hardly called for any type of budget.

Brown is searching for the following chapter currently. His Vimeo popularity allowed him to shed the enthusiast designation some years back and also he’s now generated prize-winning job for several top brands. While Brown is working towards more standard pens of success, the old spirit stays, as well as this no-budget passion task released online last week is, to me, the most intriguing and also clearest example of Brown’s storytelling development.

Titled The Distraction, this 10 min film begins off with the above quote from scary tale Stephen King and a weird monitoring shot takes us to a television. A typical tv-clip mosaic about anxiety plays. Is this a PSA? It takes 90 secs to reach a title card, as well as after that bam! lovely drone video footage. An additional travelogue? Wait, the topic, a quite red-headed girl addresses the electronic camera. Is this a documentary? Well, it’s kinda every one of the above– a horror-documentary with scripted aspects that works as a social concern essay. Audio like a mess? Maybe a little, yet the seamless play between the forms confirms to be really awesome.

Awesome maybe is the incorrect word. It is a film regarding stress and anxiety and also depression. About acknowledging it, recording it, and trying to translate it. An effort to distill these horrific feelings right into a sensory experience so that Brown might represent it and also share it. That we might discover from each other. That we might not really feel so alone.

Brown is quite open regarding his challenging life experiences. In composing us, Brown clarifies the extremely individual motivation for the item, associating, “My entire life I’ve lived with incapacitating Anxiety as well as Depression. I found numerous interruptions over the years, but no issue exactly how tough I work or how far I travel it’s constantly come back heavier and also more powerful than ever.

( Continue analysis the entire review: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2020/03/10/the-distraction/).

CREDIT REPORTS.
Written, Edited, & Directed by MATTY BROWN.
Cinematography by JASPER NEWTON.
Starring EMMA SINAI-YUNKER & STEVEN J. WEINBERG.
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Shade Grading – DAVID TOMIAK.
Online editor – RYAN MANCE.
Initial Music by LANDIS TANAKA.
Visual Effects by LUKE TANAKA.
Poster Art by VICTOR MOSQUERA.
Titles by REED JUNGER.
Assistant Camera – JUSTIN BROWN.
Manufacturing Assistants/Extras – ISAAC PECK, MAE GELBACH & JALEN DAILEY.
Created by JASPER NEWTON & MATTY BROWN.

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