With this unique process, each actor had a general sense of what they needed to accomplish, but had no knowledge of what the other actors had been told. Actors were presented each morning with individual cards that explained their character’s motivations and stories to share for the upcoming night’s shoot. COHERENCE was shot consecutively over five nights without a screenplay. With surprising results at every turn, the filmmakers realized they were on to something quite extraordinary. Producer Lene Bausager signed on and the experiment was launched. What if a story had twists, reversals, puzzles, and existential mysteries… and the actors had to figure it all out as the shoot unfolded? What if there was no one present during filming except the camera operators? What if all limits were removed and the performers could go anywhere, do anything their characters needed to survive the experience?
The elements in question were basics such as “crew,” “budget,” “script,” and “time.”įilmmaker James Ward Byrkit began brainstorming the idea with collaborator Alex Manugian as a way to test the limits of the improvisational process.
COHERENCE CAST AND CREW MOVIE
From the press notes:ĬOHERENCE evolved from an experiment to see just how little traditional movie elements were needed to create a compelling and narratively ambitious project. Just as fascinating as the movie itself is the approach Byrkit took to making it. The feature-length filmmaking debut of James Ward Byrkit, Coherence‘s buzzy success is due in part to it being the kind of movie about which its fans can only say, “I can’t really tell you anything about it without ruining it but JUST TRUST ME AND SEE IT!” A nifty, ingenious gem of a mindfuck, it is ostensibly the story of a dinner party between eight guests that is disrupted by a comet passing by overhead, an astronomical disturbance that has unforeseen consequences for the gathered friends. An unforgettable indie thriller by the title of Coherence has emerged fairly out of the blue as one of the summer movie season’s word-of-mouth hits.
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