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Published on: 5/13/2008
Last Visited: 9/29/2008
Eric MetzgarShooting People: Shooter Films Interview with
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Eric Metzgar, Director/ ProducerFilm: Life.Support.Music.
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These are just a couple of the stellar reviews filmmaker, Eric Metzgar, received for his debut nonfiction feature.An Independent Spirit Award Truer Than Fiction nominee for his debut, Metzgar has now completed yet another transcendent, incredibly moving piece of cinema with his sophomore effort, Life.Support.Music.. (He comes up with great titles for his films, too.) The New York-based Metzgar tells intimate stories of individuals doing extraordinary things.His work ethic may be DIY (he produces, directs, shoots, and edits his films), but his aesthetic is the best of what modern cinema can offer us - finding inspiration in the unlikeliest of places, masterful storytelling, and gorgeous cinematography. (You can read my review of Life.Support.Music. here.)
A fan since seeing Chances on POV last summer, I met Eric for the first time after seeing his latest film at the True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri, where it showed as a work-in-progress, and again at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival a few weeks ago in Durham, North Carolina.
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Eric Metzgar (EM): I was mainly a musician, although I've been shooting and making strange little films on Super 8 or video since college.
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I was talking to my friend, Eric [Liebman], who scored both of my movies.He was telling me how he hadn't been feeling patient at all lately, how he was feeling agitated all the time.