The Funnel Web

This is, by far, the best film I’ve ever been hit by a truck for. If there was ever a more fitting opportunity to force coherence out of chaos; getting rear-ended at 1 am by a landscaping truck on the Garden State Parkway, the night before a shoot is it.

Over the last too many years, we’ve gotten uncomfortably forgiving of nonsense in our lives – to the point where we will normalize absurd deficiencies rather than upset the status quo.

Funnel Web was written to pull the camera back on that chaos. Jumping from scene to scene makes the chaos feel overwhelming, but once we hit the credits and the tempo drops, the absurdity of it all comes to the fore; reinforcing how arbitrary and fragile the majority of it, really is.

Thankfully I had some of the best collaborators stuck in the crazy web with me. This film took longer to edit than almost any other because the cast made sure every take was special & hilarious in its own way. The versatility & free energy they
brought to the set was a joy to shoot & a beautiful nightmare to edit.

In a film this edit-heavy, it’s conceivable actors would struggle to make it their own, but each one brought so much character that they had no trouble leaving their mark.

And in a story about nonsense, memorable is the
utmost achievement.