“A Mask of Myself” the Rotten Tomato Interview


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Interviewer: So are you comfortable?

N.Dusk: What? What? With my life? In this chair? Is this the first question? What?

Interviewer: In that chair.

N.Dusk: Oh, yeah sure. That light is kinda in my eyes.

Interviewer: Oh sure sorry. There is that better?

N.Dusk: Can we just turn it off and light a couple of candles maybe?

Interviewer: This is an interview not a romantic encounter.

N.Dusk: I know. I know. But I need to be in the right mood to say the right things...you know...I..oh forget it.

Interviewer: Uh, I will. MMmmm...so what happened to "A Mask of Myself"?

N.Dusk: Oh what a flop. It never had a chance.

Interviewer: Even with the Facebook exposure?

N.Dusk: Exposure? Ha ha ha. It had nothing to do with anything but being a very bad movie. Besides that I'm pretty clueless with marketing and YouTube has changed dramatically in the last few years.

Interviewer: How so?

N.Dusk: Well, first of all, it used to all the shit and now it's just not even half of that.

Interviewer: Because of Facebook?

N.Dusk: Not just FB but Tweeter, Tumbler etc etc. YouTube has just become a link to social networking, it's not really what it used to be. It's all about proper marketing though. Everybody wants their stuff to get a million hits and ultimately....



Interviewer: GO VIRAL!

N.Dusk: Right. And the chances of that are like hitting the lottery.

Interviewer: So what was the inspiration for "A Mask of Myself"?

N.Dusk: Well I kinda mentioned that in the closing credits. It just started as a small spark. Glancing at a photo in an art magazine. Simple right? But my mind carried that photo away to another imaginative world and it went away for awhile but the spark never went out. I just kept thinking about that photo, how cool it was and what I could do with it.

Interviewer: What was the photo of?

N.Dusk: It was a photo of a man in front of a wall full on TV monitors.

Interviewer: That's a pretty significant part of your movie.

N.Dusk: Well originally I thought the photo was sooo cool that I was just gonna steal the idea for my FB profile photo. Then while I was working on it, I thought about the whole profile photo idea, how important it is, how people worship themselves. I ended up doing a huge web research project on social networking as a whole. I started watching profile photos. Some people change them all the time, like me, and others can change every few months. I even had one friend for three years that NEVER changed it once!

Interviewer: Fascinating

N.Dusk: It really was to me. It becomes an exercise in "self-discipline" ... for me anyway. As usual I over analyzed the entire situation and broke it down into ridiculous layers of ego and self worth.

Interviewer: So you like to "over analyze" ?

N.Dusk: Yes. That's one of my problems....well, I guess it's not a problem really. It can be good. I can say that I'm "deep" but most of my friends interpret it as me being an "over sensitive idiot with poetic eyes... delicate even."

Interviewer: What else are you?

N.Dusk: Weird as hell.

Interviewer: What do you mean by that?

N.Dusk: For as long as I can remember, I have a taste for the ordinarily weird. Things that are right in front of me. Life is a series of weird moments. One weird photograph after another. One moment I can be in a room with the strangest combination of people making the strangest combination of statements to each other and twenty seconds later I will driving down a wooded highway alone, watching an amazing sunset through my windshield.

Interviewer: Wow.

N.Dusk: Are you being sarcastic?

Interviewer: What do you think?

N.Dusk: That's exactly my point! You and 99% of the globe just don't get it. You just take advantage of lifes everyday moments.

Interviewer: That's not ordinarily weird it's ridiculously deep.

N.Dusk: If you stop and watch what happens to you during the course of a day, you may be amazed.

Interviewer: Yawn. Ok, so, back to the movie. How do you rate it against all your other weird movies?

N.Dusk: This was actually the only movie I made that had some sort of plot or even a plan.

Interviewer: Is that why it failed?

N.Dusk: Miserably.

Interviewer: So, why did it take you so long to complete?

N.Dusk: Well first of all, it wasn't easy. The movie is like 90 percent stop-action and that's a lot of work.... secondly, I have no real free time. I love being creative and being in front of the monitor at work 10 to 12 hours a day takes it's toll.....on my time and my creativity. I just HAD to do a project before the blizzard of work that comes Christmas time.

Interviewer: What is your fascination with animation?

N.Dusk: Ever since I was a little kid, I've been fascinated by animation.

Interviewer: Hanna-Barbera ?

N.Dusk: Ha ha....well, yes, of course, and the roughness of Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse. But really, I started doing flip movies in books at a very early age. Now there is stop action at it's rawest form. In the early days of the digital era I found Power Point.

Interviewer: Not really a great animation tool.

N.Dusk: No but with alot of thought and work it could be AND you can tell a story. But even bigger than that......you can add another huge element.......SOUND !  And by trial and error and many great "accidents" I was able to put some cool things together.

Interviewer: What's next?

N.Dusk: After this movie, I need to get back into something totally unpredictable and spontaneous like I have done in the past. Starting from scratch with no plot, few ideas and some clips of cool music.

Interviewer: If you had super powers what would they be?

N.Dusk: Oh oh....travel in time for sure!!!

Interviewer: Favorite software besides Photoshop?

N.Dusk: iMovie

Interviewer: Greatest single influence?

N.Dusk: Vonnegut

Interviewer: Favorite song?

N.Dusk: Norwegian Wood

Interviewer: Comfort food?

N.Dusk: Currently? Olives stuffed with garlic from the ShopRite salad bar.
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“A Mask of Myself” the Rotten Tomato Interview

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