Experiencing Interruptions?

The Racetrack

For Vince and Josie, a couple set in their ways, changes are coming!

  • Frances Barth
    Director
    Dreaming Tango, The Audition, Jonnie in the Lake, Ginger Smith and Billy Gee, End of the Day_End of the Day
  • Frances Barth
    Writer
    Dreaming Tango, The Audition, Jonnie in the Lake, Ginger Smith and Billy Gee, End of the Day_End of the Day
  • Frances Barth
    Producer
  • Ron Nakahara
    Key Cast
    "Vince"
    Daredevil, I Think I Love My Wife, Wolf of Wall Street, Sleepwalk with Me
  • Frances Barth
    Key Cast
    "Josie"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 57 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 1, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    digital HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • Frances Barth
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Frances Barth

Born in the Bronx, having received her advanced degrees from Hunter College, CUNY, Frances Barth has been working and showing her painting in New York and internationally since the 1960’s.
While an art student Frances also studied modern dance. She performed with Yvonne Rainer at Lincoln Center and the Billy Rose Theater in 1968-9, and with Joan Jonas in dance and video in 1970.

Video: Frances recently received her certificate in Film/TV from NYU. During the last 15 years she has created two animations, two documentaries, and two short narrative films. Her films have shown in the US, Canada, Europe and South America and have won awards. Frances’ new film Dreaming Tango premiered in New York at Anthology Film Archives in August 2020 and won Best Experimental Short at the Cannes Short Film Festival. In 2017 she published her first graphic novel Ginger Smith and Billy Gee with settings derived from her paintings. This was expanded as a script for 7 actors with a performance at Silas Von Morisse gallery in 2018. Her first animation End of the Day, End of the Day has also been scripted and was presented at Triangle Artists Association in 2019 with 2 actors and projection.

Frances is a member of The Filmmaker’s Cooperative

Her awards include two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, an Adolphe and Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant, two American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase awards, the Anonymous Was a Woman grant and a Pollock-Krasner grant.

She is Director Emeritus of the Mt.Royal School of Art, The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

Frances is married to the actor/director Ron Nakahara.

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Director Statement

I shot this short during sequestering at the end of last year and the beginning of 2021 using my husband and myself as the actors. The second scene is green screened in my studio upstairs. The characters Josie and Vince are in my new longer screenplay "Cock Robin" that I'm working on turning into a feature length film. The experiment in B&W was to see how it would effect the feeling of the relationship. Thank you for your consideration!!