Middle Sized Things

Middle Sized Things

A guest speaker teaches that properties of scale (Big and Small) have no connection with something's moral status (Good and Bad). Things take a turn when the students he speaks to begin pointing out the glaring holes in his philosophy. Written and Directed by Michael Rees Starring: Al Warren Eric Rahill Veronika Slowikowska Jordan Raf Produced by: Jessica DiMento EP: Andy Ruse Associate Producers: Hannah Schulman & Gillian Asuncion Cinematography: Bart Cortright 1st AC / Gaffer: Denver Milord Production Sound: Victor Solorzano Color: Orlando Wimberly Sound Mix: Joseph Agredano Script & Creative Consultant: Austin Frosch Editorial Consultant: Dylan Redford Styling and Score: Kyle Chase Classroom Cast: Ciano Russo Kyle Chase Zack Villere (cousin & best in the biz) Brooke Andersen Abhimanyu Janamanchi Victoria Jean Mills Paul Bentley Hannah Schulman Hospice Cast: Samantha Carroll Annie Trinder Music: “Preludio” written and perfomed by Luis Bonfá © 2006 Atlantic Recording Corp. “Cavalo-Ferro” written by Ricardo Bezerra, Fagner performed by Quarteto Em Cy © 1958 EMI Recods Brasil Ltda Special Thanks: Jared Rovira Evan Sica Maddie Gwinn Alex Sovoda Sarah Bentley Brooke Andersen Robbie and Sally Rees Kathleen Heffernan Jenna Marsh Production Companies: Bender & Genma Films “This thing [the film] mostly came about as a result of two ideas. The first: a joke in which someone was misinformed at an early age that size has some direct correlation to something’s moral status and is struggling to comprehend that this may not be the case. The second was realizing it should be a figure with some vague authority or societal prestige. I’ve encountered very narrow minded and delusional people that speak with a particular self-righteousness and thought “what would happen if that character was someone I didn’t hate and cringe at, or at least made them funny to watch.” So it wasn’t always a guest speaker or professorial figure but when I combined the ideas, something about that made sense. It didn’t start as any literal critique on the current state of higher education, but if it landed there I’m cool with that. Eric’s position is almost entirely from a silly argument (more of a joke) I had in college that never left my head, and it naturally informed his entire stance when I needed a somewhat logical pushback against the first two ideas. A huge part of this one [the film] was to stoke a conversation, however dumb the premise, and somehow have that translate from the screen into an actual discourse between viewers so they could interact with the logic of the lecture." -Michael