Idle Mist XI: Confused spectators, onset nemesis, jealous gf and other trivia

My dad had a bit part in the classroom scene that I had to cut. To this day he hasn't forgiven me for it. It was in editing that I decided to make this a time-warp scene, to hint at how reality in the film was coming undone.

The breakfast scene was shot at my dad's apartment. They put up with a lot from me over there. Months before I'd brought the chamber orchestra to rehearse and record something I wrote to his living room. Fortunately, he seemed to like it but here I was again with plenty of scenes to shoot in their main bedroom for example. I took some of the sex out of the story, and I'm glad...

Whenever my then girlfriend, an open-minded artist, joined me in a screening of the film, she would elbow me in the arm every time things got physical between Cero and Valeria. Maybe it was to avoid future bruising that I had trimmed some racy scenes down during editing.

Although the white haired man Cero bumps against after waking up was actually Liana's father, the woman that sees Cero stumbling on the street, wasn't acting. She looked over her shoulder and afraid pulled her son away from me, probably thinking I was a junky coming down or something. She didn't see any crew because by then the crew was only Liana (line producer etc) who was holding the camera from the balcony of a nearby building.

In the the confrontation scene between Valeria and the doctor, those phones you hear ringing repeatedly in the background were from the secretary to the real doctor whose office we were using. Some of his patients had arrived and they where waiting while the our only professional actor struggled to remember his lines in a pivotal scene in the film. To top it off, the teacher made his last appearance to rush us, claim the equipment and cleverly pointed out how we were making a mistake by showing certain reflections, the lights, and tripods and I had to waste precious time explaining to him how these filmmaking objects were actually an integral part of the resolution of the story. I don't think he got it until he saw the finished film.