Richard Kind on Making a Short Film About Making a Short Film | Proof of Concept | The New Yorker

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  • Опубліковано 30 січ 2024
  • Ellie Sachs and Max Cohn’s short film, “Proof of Concept,” offers a humorous meta-riff on the movie business and a tour of the Upper West Side.
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  • @elliesachs
    @elliesachs 4 місяці тому +167

    Hi! We’re Max Cohn and Ellie Sachs - the writer/directors behind Proof of Concept. We’ll be looking out for your questions about the movie and look forward to answering some of them! Thanks for watching

    • @thesoundofcoolness
      @thesoundofcoolness 4 місяці тому +4

      Other than meaningless shots on a beach during golden hour, are their any other overused short film tropes you've noticed?

    • @Eddi121212
      @Eddi121212 4 місяці тому +3

      Does a short film need a whole 3 act structure, with complete character arcs that undergo a profound change?

    • @theovenengen4067
      @theovenengen4067 4 місяці тому +3

      What I am waiting for is a short film about the making-of of this film.

    • @elliesachs
      @elliesachs 4 місяці тому +3

      @@Eddi121212 Apparently not! :) But a clear beginning middle and end is always good. If you can also incorporate profound character arcs with a short runway, do it!

    • @elliesachs
      @elliesachs 4 місяці тому

      @@theovenengen4067 We do have a ton of BTS footage…

  • @nivellrayda8117
    @nivellrayda8117 4 місяці тому +49

    Now I need that feature film about how hard it is adopting a short film into a feature film

  • @jabbermocky4520
    @jabbermocky4520 4 місяці тому +24

    I love Richard Kind! Thanks, New Yorker.

  • @fran7759
    @fran7759 4 місяці тому +21

    Brilliant. Very cool cast. Richard Kind; need more films with this wonderful actor in it.

  • @t.j.johnsonthewriter
    @t.j.johnsonthewriter 4 місяці тому +7

    And this my dear friends is why I love the New Yorker. These little shorts put outmacking humour out of the mundane. In the magazine, my favourite thing is the Shouts & Murmurs section: I even sent a piece to them, but it was declined.

    • @FollowTheJohn
      @FollowTheJohn 2 місяці тому

      It is a shame that the New Yorker laid off the entire film department in December 2023. They did it for "budget" reasons.

  • @williamcarman7118
    @williamcarman7118 4 місяці тому +3

    Great narrative and very inciteful. Love the writing and the actors too! Someone fund her!

  • @nowthenzen
    @nowthenzen 4 місяці тому +4

    Super good and funny! I enjoyed every minute of it! Literally.

  • @Ryousake
    @Ryousake 4 місяці тому +7

    This is so interesting! The fact that there was meta meta-ing of short films. Its a interesting point of view. I'm not one for watching a lot of movies but I do enjoy a short film, but its so rare to hear about them in general. Traditional Hollywood really does have a grasp on the film industry as a whole, doesn't it? Interesting. It's a little how I feel about the music industry and the ability to be your own version of creative while still under a label, let alone to be found by a label with so many talented people out there.

  • @jumper553
    @jumper553 4 місяці тому +4

    Bravo! Well thought out and surreptitiously brilliant! Having attended many indie and "mainstream" film festivals, this would rate much higher than the vast majority. And, for myself, this leads to several other topics which could also be educationally humorous! Perfect casting too. And just out of curiosity, I didn't bother to study the credits, so could you tell me how many people it took to produce this gem?

  • @ml9867
    @ml9867 4 місяці тому +3

    This is so trippy.
    I love it!!!

  • @jimmorrison5796
    @jimmorrison5796 4 місяці тому +3

    So true it hurts. Nicely done.

  • @WhatARook
    @WhatARook 4 місяці тому +1

    I love it! Awesome! You know who you should get? Richard Kind. He's compelling. That would definitely impact the production value.

  • @j.wilcox3547
    @j.wilcox3547 4 місяці тому +3

    Well done and highly enjoyable.

  • @enolaholmes3309
    @enolaholmes3309 4 місяці тому +2

    This was great, on every level!!

  • @ChaseWoolner
    @ChaseWoolner 4 місяці тому +2

    This is SO Funny! Great job!👏👏

  • @Matt-ex4ex
    @Matt-ex4ex 4 місяці тому +4

    Love it! Will share with our teenage son - an aspiring director.

    • @joanneweiss3864
      @joanneweiss3864 4 місяці тому +1

      Best of luck to him....and to you, as the mom of a comic😂

  • @flyingo
    @flyingo 4 місяці тому +2

    Wow what a concept for a conceptual short examining the importance of a short as a proof of concept for a feature about the financial and creative struggles of making a short.. on film, no less. Count me in.

  • @dennispeery5166
    @dennispeery5166 4 місяці тому

    Absolutely brilliant.

  • @teach100
    @teach100 3 місяці тому

    Loved it! Needed a bit more staring at twigs for me. 😉 Thanks New Yorker.

  • @kevinsengara1882
    @kevinsengara1882 4 місяці тому +1

    This is fantastic!

  • @manuelbermeo8903
    @manuelbermeo8903 4 місяці тому +1

    Me encantó el corto 🤩🤩🤩🤩!!!. Saludos desde Colombia.

  • @michaelrfx7
    @michaelrfx7 4 місяці тому +1

    Very cool concept, watched it on my Apple Vision Pro.

  • @HollyHargreaves
    @HollyHargreaves 4 місяці тому +1

    As a short filmmaker, i felt this.

  • @ExitSeraphim125
    @ExitSeraphim125 4 місяці тому

    Wonderful, very funny and very true!

  • @CashMoneyMoore
    @CashMoneyMoore 2 місяці тому

    Love the Barney Greengrass feature haha

  • @js7dragon
    @js7dragon 4 місяці тому +2

    A perfect short

  • @RealhumanMaz
    @RealhumanMaz 4 місяці тому

    When will you be moving into your experimental phase? Great short!

  • @GeorgeChipo
    @GeorgeChipo 4 місяці тому +1

    OMG That's Finn from The Sopranos!

  • @lfried
    @lfried 4 місяці тому

    Yes!!

  • @FollowTheJohn
    @FollowTheJohn 2 місяці тому

    I dig this.

  • @sebastiananderson4486
    @sebastiananderson4486 4 місяці тому

    Now that... was meta ;)

  • @sonicextremities9570
    @sonicextremities9570 4 місяці тому +2

    YOOO THATS FINN DETROLIO!!!!

  • @zoltancomedy
    @zoltancomedy 4 місяці тому +2

    Hilarious 😂

  • @cuylerballenger
    @cuylerballenger 4 місяці тому

    good job

  • @zebibabr
    @zebibabr 4 місяці тому +1

    hilarious, delightful, inventive!

  • @AmbientWalking
    @AmbientWalking 4 місяці тому +1

    💖💖💖💖

  • @aknetworkedit
    @aknetworkedit 4 місяці тому +1

    Short films are like the R&D of the film world. Yet you never see short films from the major players of today unless its a commercial. And the costs of making one are still quite high.

  • @knudsandbknielsen1612
    @knudsandbknielsen1612 4 місяці тому

    Woderful!!!

  • @ttaylor1808
    @ttaylor1808 4 місяці тому +4

    What was the actual budget?

    • @ml9867
      @ml9867 4 місяці тому +1

      Probably around 2 million

    • @tstraubster
      @tstraubster 2 місяці тому

      😂

  • @MaxTyco
    @MaxTyco 3 місяці тому

    cute, loved it

  • @djr3386
    @djr3386 4 місяці тому +1

    A short film within a short film about short film. 😳 Take that Christopher Nolan.

    • @CatatonicImperfect
      @CatatonicImperfect 4 місяці тому

      and i was able to make out every line of dialogue, too! didn't even need subtitles.

  • @MickGenuine
    @MickGenuine 4 місяці тому +2

    very meta

  • @stanactor1007
    @stanactor1007 4 місяці тому

    👍❤️😎👏🎬🎥

  • @Jazzlover2324
    @Jazzlover2324 4 місяці тому +1

    Pretty sure Chloe is a huge fan of Hong Sang-soo

  • @oneyee
    @oneyee 3 дні тому

    Richard Kind = national treasure

  • @lightsone2159
    @lightsone2159 4 місяці тому

    Bwahahahaaa! Great ending! Silly film!

  • @bjb7587
    @bjb7587 4 місяці тому +1

    Simple as ABC - Always Be Closing.

  • @diapergrinch
    @diapergrinch 4 місяці тому +4

    When you can’t think of an actual idea, go meta!

  • @vidiot9000
    @vidiot9000 4 місяці тому

    excellent film, but Uncle needs a mic!

  • @oprust
    @oprust 4 місяці тому +3

    Did you do it for 7?

  • @BobMori
    @BobMori 4 місяці тому

    Funny & all too real. 🎬 Those film festival entry fees are SOMETHING ELSE. A cash cow for those own & run the festivals.

  • @nnnimroddd
    @nnnimroddd 4 місяці тому

    What did u end up eating at Zabar's during the shoot?

  • @tstraubster
    @tstraubster 2 місяці тому

    Haven't seen an answer to the driving question: What was the final cost of making this short?

  • @DangerousMuteLunatic
    @DangerousMuteLunatic 4 місяці тому

    I'm loving this, though I'm also very much the target audience for this

  • @bostonboybob
    @bostonboybob 4 місяці тому

    very funny

  • @mashi_rsa
    @mashi_rsa 4 місяці тому

    nah this was great, the hell

  • @qphotonyc7708
    @qphotonyc7708 3 місяці тому

    Where's that toy store?

  • @impmoviechannel3052
    @impmoviechannel3052 4 місяці тому

    Artist Marcel Duchamp talked of "fighting the religion of art". What is being shown here is "the language of the cult of films". It is this kind of thinking that is bringing about the demise of film narrative as an artform, leaving the door open to AI content replacing "art". Movies were the Industrial Age and we're now in the Information Age. Time to adapt, which the last actor's strike failed to address.

  • @kpatukas
    @kpatukas 4 місяці тому +1

    Oh, the irony…. I can’t bear it. It’s like being stuck in an el vat or with Antonin Artaud, Jean Paul Sartre, and Anita Bryant. On Thorazine.

  • @NDFlyFisher
    @NDFlyFisher 4 місяці тому

    The real proof of concept would be to do a short film on setting up a proof of concept film festival.

  • @okjoe5561
    @okjoe5561 4 місяці тому

    This film is like something Andy Kaufman would make, only his version wouldn't make any sense.

  • @pottymouthmexican
    @pottymouthmexican 4 місяці тому

    I dont know wtf this was. But it was aight.

  • @jd899
    @jd899 4 місяці тому

    Great satire.

  • @magtak
    @magtak 4 місяці тому +13

    In this first comment I will explain how to be the first commenter.

  • @jasonluong3862
    @jasonluong3862 4 місяці тому

    This short film puts Inception to shame for its audacious self-actualization.

  • @pepealexandre
    @pepealexandre 4 місяці тому +1

    Loved it!
    Here, have my Oscar: