FILM CLUB

The fanatical worlds of Sport and Art combine in a High School drama about the implications of poor leadership.

  • Cooper Wood
    Director
    Wake Up Dead, Cain Rose Up, Elijah's Dance
  • Cooper Wood
    Writer
    Elijah's Dance
  • Cooper Wood
    Producer
  • Sam Sauer
    Key Cast
    "Frank"
    Forget It, Good Kids
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    Drama, Short
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 17 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 7, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director - Cooper Wood
Director Statement

This project is a reluctant exploration of how I perceive the past. For over a decade, film and art often fell at the wayside in favor of lesser passions. I acknowledge a renewed responsibility for the ways this time in my life is reflected upon. My wish for this work is to depict an anxious fear I have for what Filmmaking could become given its cultural fanaticism – comparable to that of sports. How do powerful members of these fanatical institutions behave? How does it affect the people they lead and represent? In either realm of interest I believe an opportunity exists to create something larger than an individual. Hopefully for better, but often for worse.

“Give them Bread and Circuses and they will never revolt.”