Special Report: Ephemera (2026)

Podcast: The Projection Booth · Weirding Way Media

Opublikowano: 2026-10-08

Bil Richardson's Ephemera was built backwards: instead of writing a script and shooting it, the longtime below-the-line filmmaker and West Virginia University professor emeritus assembled the entire 87-minute film from licensed stock footage on Artlist and Envato, recording all dialogue as ADR, and discovering — only while writing the final log line — that he'd accidentally told his own story. Richardson tells Mike White how the project began as a distraction during a year-long hospitalization for a twelve-inch, six-inch-deep leg wound that wouldn't heal (doctors twice recommended amputation), and how the film's pyromancer heroine — burned in a firefight, fitted with an art...