Last week, I had a three day film shoot at a family-owned electronics factory in Woodstock, IL. The film GROUNDHOG DAY, in which a weatherman is stuck living the same day over and over again, was also filmed in Woodstock. In general, film sets do have a certain GROUND HOG DAY quality - a déjà vu that comes from running a scene multiple times from different angles. The physical labor that underpins every shoot also has a looping rhythm, a Sisyphean cycle of perpetually setting up and tearing down the worlds you’re building. Whenever you bring a camera and some gear into a space, that space becomes a
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Last week, I had a three day film shoot at a family-owned electronics factory in Woodstock, IL. The film GROUNDHOG DAY, in which a weatherman is stuck living the same day over and over again, was also filmed in Woodstock. In general, film sets do have a certain GROUND HOG DAY quality - a déjà vu that comes from running a scene multiple times from different angles. The physical labor that underpins every shoot also has a looping rhythm, a Sisyphean cycle of perpetually setting up and tearing down the worlds you’re building. Whenever you bring a camera and some gear into a space, that space becomes a