The Bear Tooth was full on opening night to watch Burt on opening night of the Anchorage International Film Festival tonight. The clip above is from a brief audio Q&A with the leading character, Burt. This was a truly unique film. The main character played himself - a 69 year old guitarist with Parkinson Disease. His remote Steve played himself. Though the story was fictional. The film makers say they filmed this in seven days for $7000. In the Q&A director Burke said all his previous experience let him just go with the actors/characters with different cameras and that gave him enough to edit it into an absorbing film. He also credited Burt and Steve as natural actors who made this sort of film possible. In the clip above Burt (facing us) is talking with the man who walks into his life claiming to be his son.
It's going on 1am and I have to get up early tomorrow. I want to say a bit more about this film. But for now, here is a bit of the Q&A with the film's director Joe Burke. The audio isn't as clear as I'd like, but it is understandable. He did take pretty fast for most of the Q&A.
And the post wouldn't be complete with my mentioning Witty Youngman, who played guitar after the movie - starting out with a song Burt sang in the movie. She had a hauntingly lovely voice that kept people in the theater much longer than normal.
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