"Dan co-wrote it, and he was also its production designer and editor, and he acted in the movie, playing Sergeant Pinback. We started off with some money from my parents, shooting on 16mm. It was a very long process of shooting a scene, then pausing to raise money to shoot the next. Dan and I built the sets with help from college friends, and students also acted as cast and crew."
"The voice of the computer in Dark Star was Barbara Cookie Knapp, the wife of our cameraman. The ice vapour was made with kerosene mist which is not something you want to breathe Dirty Space was a choice we made because we thought that, knowing human beings, the kind of sterility you saw in science fiction such as 2001 wasn't going to happen. Also, of course, it was cheaper."
In 1970 a University of Southern California student project produced the film Dark Star. Dan O'Bannon co-wrote, served as production designer and editor, and acted as Sergeant Pinback. The production began with parental funding, shot on 16mm, and used college friends and students as cast and crew. Sets were built by the creators, and the computer voice was provided by Barbara Cookie Knapp. Effects included kerosene mist for ice vapor and a deliberately 'dirty' aesthetic to contrast sterile science-fiction depictions. Ron Cobb designed the spaceship. Additional footage and comedic alien scenes were shot to reach feature length and secure distribution.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]