Heres to the Future (2014)

On a latesummer Sunday in 2011 a female director gathers a team of filmmakers writers musicians artists critics and friends in an apartment to recreate a scene from Michael Curtizs Depressionera drama The Cabin in the Cotton Over plates of pasta and glasses of red wine a round robin of nonprofessional actors take turns performing the same scene again and again In different permutations With a freedom Influenced by preCode Hollywood cameras phones and laptops are scattered around amp set at almost every possible angle documenting the action both in front of and behind the camera as it unfolds from rehearsals to equipment adjustments to the banter between takes An intimate playful and spontaneous look Into the collaborative cinematic process emerges a snapshot of the filmmakers perennial struggle to capture fleeting moments before the day and light slip away