Starring: Ryan Capizzi, Karen Barbeau, Terry Reilly, and Tom Meyers
Soundtrack by: Peter Krasinski
Director of Photography: Fabio Imperoli
Written by: Mary Smith
Directed by: Benjamin Peyton
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Pioneering silent film actress/producer Mary Pickford once said, "I never had sympathy for those who wanted to produce 'art' pictures and ignore the public. These weird ideas that appeal only to a minority--they're not for me." (Motion Picture Herald, February 17, 1940.) With that said, it's probable that Mary wouldn't exactly approve of The Thousand Steps, but this short silent horror film utilizes some of the very same locations seen in Pickford's earliest films and contains many little nods to her work. Stylistically influenced by the films of D.W. Griffith and European silent horror like Nosferatu, Destiny, and Haxan, The Thousand Steps makes use of period cinematography, editing, and effects and incorporates the dust and scratches needed to create the feeling of a long-lost silent film of yesteryear. The film was the Jury Prize winner at the 2021 Barrymore Film Center Short Film Festival.
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| Tom Meyers and Chris Milewski. with Mary Pickford -- an inspiration for The Thousand Stemps and Garden of Souls -- behind them |
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| Chris Milewski lurking in the trees at the waterfall from The Thousand Steps, incidentally a location that appears in Mary Pickford's Fanchon the Cricket (1915) and What the Daisy Said (1910.) |
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| The Thousand Steps took the Jury Prize in the Barrymore Film Center's 2021 Short Film Festival. |
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