Ultimate Dolph

"Two gangsters are bringing a ticking timebomb into a skyscraper, when suddenly they get stuck in the elevator."

The first International film Slamdance showed was actually a french short called "Paranoia" which is being shown before "Rifle." Noted also as Slamdance's first widescreen film, "Paranoia" is a ten minute trip in an elevator with two thugs with a time-bomb in a suitcase, unexpected guests, and more bombs. Director Frederic Forestier originally started the short in 1991 and finally finished the expensive "Filcker" in 1993 at a total of about $200,000 (mostly due to the popular French actors that were used.) Forestier later commented that having a star in his film really makes no difference on its success. Being part live action and part computer animation (via a home Amiga system,) Forestier did claim that he was able to cost his FX cost to one-tenth of the cost of pyrotechnics and other live FX by using computer animation. After viewing the short, I think more money could have been saved by not even filming the second half, which seemed somewhat disjointed where more and more people with little motive eventually bomb the entire world. A cute film, it reminds me of an old college project I did that got out of hand. "The Delicate Art of the Rifle" followed and made me really hate people that don't give films a chance.