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Feb 2, 2022 · Since my last interview with filmmaker Damian K. Lahey, his indie feature, Simple Like Silver, has received unanimously positive reviews and strong word-of-mouth press. I caught up with Damian as the dawn of the new year, as he develops a new project with Cristina Marsillach, and continues promoting Simple Like Silver.
- Damian K. Lahey talks ‘Simple Like Silver’ - We Are Cult
With his new film, Simple Like Silver, making its debut on...
- Interview: Damian K. Lahey » We Are Cult
Indie filmmaker Damian K. Lahey discusses his latest...
- Damian K. Lahey talks ‘Simple Like Silver’ - We Are Cult
Aug 4, 2022 · The fiercely independent filmmaker Damian Lahey is back on the scene with his newest effort, Pillars of Lost Futures, which recently wrapped principal photography in Tunisia. It’s a deep and personal production that sees Lahey traveling across the world to explore the fate of his own nation, while examining all that has come before him, and us.
Apr 14, 2021 · With his new film, Simple Like Silver, making its debut on Amazon Prime, We Are Cult’s Nick Clement caught up with award winning indie filmmaker and screenwriter Damian K. Lahey, for a discussion about this boldly artistic project.
- Nice! I Know You’Re Based Out of Florida. Is That Where You Shot these?
- Any Plans to Expand These Shorts Into Feature Length Films?
- I Really Dig The Trailer For Simple Like Silver. Who Did The Music?
- What Was The Inspiration For Captain Traer Smiles at The Stars?
- How Did It Feel Getting Those Three Shorts Finished?
- Wow!
- Tell Me About The Film. A Giallo of sorts?
- What Was It Like Working with Cristina as Opposed to Tarah?
- Did Cristina Have Any Good Stories About Working on Argento’s Opera?
- You Used The iPhone to Shoot this. It Looks great. Would You Use That Again?
These shorts were all shot in Los Angeles. A lot of people don’t know it, but if you’re shooting a low budget one location short or feature, Los Angeles is the place to be. You’d be amazed at the talent and crew you can get for cheap to come out, and everything is a phone call away. Multiple locations? That’s another story, ha ha. But if you have o...
District Quarantine was actually taken from the world that we created for a feature film titled Call Center. It revolved around a remote call center managing emergency response teams for an outbreak of some crazy virus that was taking over the country. We were actually going to shoot that feature after Soccer Moms In Perilbut it fell apart. So we p...
Ah. David Wingo. He’s done some of David Gordon Green’s and Jeff Nichols’ stuff. And that really cool Arnold Schwarzenneger zombie flick, Maggie. I reached out to him about doing the score for this or possibly recommending someone if he couldn’t do it. I sent some stills from the shoot along with the e-mail. He sent me back this score to some proje...
I was stumped working on this feature for Tarah to play the lead in, and that’s when I came up with it. It’s a minimalist deal, but the concept is…ya know, episodes of Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Martian, Gravity? The person in the movie or episode always gets saved at the end, right? Well, what if it was a forgone conclusion you were going to...
Great! I mean, I had a wonderful time shooting them, which is very important to me. This is a business where you strive to get what you want, but getting what you need is a victory in itself. And we certainly got what we needed with these. Unfortunately, what held us back from getting what we wanted was silly stuff. Just incompetence on the part of...
Yeah. But Cristina didn’t do interviews or anything. Finally — through a combined effort that involved many phone calls, some of her old students, her sister, and my indie filmmaking pal Jane Spence — I got ahold of her. It took months. But when I spoke to her, she let me know she was active and was interested in doing something small. She still di...
Simple Like Silveris a small feature film about a woman who learns she has a brain tumor. Terminal case. And she decides to take one last vacation but while on this vacation, she sees a girl murdered…but she is not sure, and the audience is not so sure either. Yes, it is an existential mystery or giallo. But this is more like Antonioni and Bela Tar...
Oh, they’re very similar. Both self-deprecating, cultured, but not stuck up — down to earth. And funny. Both of them are very quick witted. They’re not too precious about things, and they want to enjoy themselves. But they also want the work to be good. They want to look good.
Not really. She mentioned they shot the footage with the crows for days and that she was proud it was considered a classic now. But it was not successful when originally released. She autographed a couple OperaBlu-rays while she was in town, too. Look, as a general rule, when you’re working with people on something they don’t really talk a lot abou...
Thank you. I would for a certain type of project where the narrative lent itself to it. I wouldn’t use one for a conventional narrative with lots of coverage, sound and interiors etc. I think if you play to its strengths, you’re in great shape and can get a very good quality product with a fraction of the money and the headaches. I mean, we spent t...
Nov 30, 2018 · Indie filmmaker Damian K. Lahey discusses his latest feature, which sees the return of the elusive Cristina Marsillach.
Jul 5, 2021 · Sometimes the biggest mysteries are found among our daily horrors. So it goes in Damian K. Lahey ’s film Simple Like Silver, an eerie, surreal, and achingly beautiful film taking place over a couple of fateful days in the lives of three disparate characters.
Damian Lahey is known for Simple Like Silver (2021), The Heroes of Arvine Place (2013) and Cocaine Angel (2006).
