MEET THE FILMMAKER
03-05-2007
Erica Gorochow (gorociao)
Age:
22
Featured Short:
Milos Learns To Skateboard
Involvement:
director
I prefer...undercooked to overcooked
I admire... charles and ray eames, oskar fischinger, kids building computers in their basements, linguists, italo calvino, todd solondz, ira glass, gourmet chefs, rosalind elsie franklin, wikipedia
I strive to...keep things in perspective
I despise... 9 to 5 routine
I advise... learning another language and going abroad
Short film is... new but old
Pawky is...much needed. I'm honored to be a part of it...
How did the idea for 'Milos' come about?
Previously I had spent a good amount of time in a retirement home in america - and had come to better understand the struggle families face as time takes its "toll" on loved ones. Anyway I became captured by this thinly veiled, undeniable despondence that permeated these places. The tasteless smell of mashed potatoes, the generic pastel color scheme of the wall paper, the big white van that carted the community around for occasional adventures/grocery store runs... And how no one is able to avoid this backwards regression of sorts: it is after all, natural on some level.
Then I met Tory who was at the same film school - FAMU in Prague (Czech Republic). Our senses of humor clicked and we both thought we could comedically riff off of these rather depressing themes. We were also interested in the idea of literal role reversal - to spice things up and make things at least somewhat more experimental. Tory thought of the idea to have our main character be a bad-ass who rebels at night: graffitting walls and acting like a teenager when no one was looking. Then I think we pretty much simultaneously asked each other - what if it wasn't a secret.
If Milos hadn't learned to skateoboard what would he have learned?Accept your situation passively. Sports are dangerous anyway..
You're living in Germany right now. Have you had a chance to interact with senior citizen there and do you plan on putting more European senior citizens in your future movies?For some reason old ladies love to engage me in conversation. Practically instantly. I almost can't avoid it. I've gotten a lot of life advice. Like its just got to gush out... So maybe some of that advice will find its way into future work...What is coming up in the Erica Gorochow universe?
Collaboration! Adventure! Struggle! Changing my mind! Figuring it out...