The Pagliaccios: At Home (2004)

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This film was a weekend family project of mine. It was the second movie I shot on digital (actually half DV and half Super 8). It was put together in a weekend and shot with the intent of sending to my sister Auria who was living abroad in Italy at the time.

I remember staying up late with my mom and my nephew Avery and working out the outline for the whole thing. We laughed pretty hard. It was a challenge to find all of the costume and make-up supplies in the middle of summer around Palouse … but we managed to put together what we needed.

It stars my nephews Jared and Avery, my mom Tina, my sister Shandra, her husband James and me. My friend Dave is a special guest star as “Uncle Sad Clown”. His wife Heather was a camera operator for one shot. We filmed it in my mom’s house “as is” without altering any of the native decorations.

It looks pretty rough to me now of course … heck – it looked rough to me then. Integrating the Super 8 with the DV was difficult at the time. I had the footage telecined locally in Portland and up in Seattle with varying degrees of success. I ended up just transferring it myself with using a method of my own devising (projecting a tiny image and macro shooting it with my DV camera).

The film still makes me laugh, so I hope people can enjoy it for what it is. Keep in mind it should NOT be watched by children!