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The Future on a Shoestring
Northern
California filmmakers Glen Kinion (San Rafael) and John Harden (Santa Rosa) have toiled for the better part of a decade on a labor of love: a feature-length science fiction movie. The creative partners and former housemates shot on Hi-8 video in and around Marin County, California and finished the project in their private "editing suite:" a spare bedroom in Kinion's San Rafael home.
"When we wrapped shooting on Breakfast
with the Colonel it was 1994, and the whole digital video revolution hadn't happened yet," explains writer/director, John Harden. "Shooting on video... it wasn't respectable. Turns out we were cutting edge. Glen pieced together an editing system for us based on the PowerMac 8500... the first "AV" Mac." (The 8500 came out in '96 and shipped with a 2 gigabyte hard drive and a whopping 16 megs of RAM.)
Science
fiction is generally not the genre of choice for independent filmmakers
and their ultra-low-budgets. The film's depiction of a near-future society
is long on social satire and uses special effects sparingly. Both Harden
and Kinion kept their day jobs, and worked on the project as time and
money allowed.