When trash collector JAMIE falls in love, she steals abandoned objects from the city garbage truck and builds charming sculptures to impress the woman of her dreams! Soon these sculptures form a vivid world of their own: they celebrate her passion, warn her of heartbreak, and lead Jamie to a new understanding of community.
Closer Than Rust is a feature length film that will be filmed on HD and include sections of hand-processed film and stop-action animation. In the movie, a queer woman named Jamie works on a dump truck in a poor suburban neighborhood in Georgia. Jamie frequently collects discarded objects; she carves them in to new sculptures and they come to life in animation at night. As a love story develops between Jamie and a woman on her trash route, these abstract animations take on an uncanny future-telling ability. In a parallel narrative thread, a trendy Asian American woman named Vespa moves to Georgia planning to open an international video café. The same foreclosed buildings that Jamie rides by each day, first seen in slow tracking shots and hand-processed film, are now seen through the satellite images and 3D remapping software of Vespa’s iPhone. Questions of class, race, sexuality and geographic location come to the surface as Jamie enters an interracial lesbian love relationship and Vespa rents a room from a self-proclaimed “Southern redneck” man.
This project is currently in preproduction and fundraising stage – find out how you can join us!
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