A documentary short following Zahedi’s friend and fellow director, Greg Watkins (co-director of A Little Stiff), during the filming of A Sign from God.

249MB | 18 min 12 s | 720×540 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7D42F07439FC3B9/A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Greg_Watkins_(Zahedi,_1999).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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from the DVD:
Greg Watkins’ romantic black comedy A SIGN FROM GOD depicts a semi-fictional day in the life of independent filmmaker Caveh (Caveh Zahedi) and his girlfriend Laura (Laura Macias) as they struggle with a series of challenges and accidents (including eviction from their apartment, possibly pregnancy, and a car crash) while desperately seeking a sign from God about the future of their troubled relationship. Laura’s increasingly pessimistic attitude — she perceives that the cascading negative events of their lives portend a negative “sign” about the relationship — is offset by Caveh’s serene and abiding faith that everything happens for a reason…

920MB | 1 h 09 min | 720×400 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/79C3DE50A2A7F1C/A_sign_from_god.avi

Language(s):English/Some Spanish
Subtitles:Hard Subbed English (during Spanish segments)

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Minimal in budget as well as in style, form, and content – the entire production is said to have cost a mere $10,000 – this black-and-white 16 millimeter tragicomedy was shot by two UCLA film students chiefly on and around their own campus. Both filmmakers play themselves in the movie, as do all the other characters; the slender plot is a literal restaging of events that actually happened, with everyone re-creating his or her original role. A single subject – Zahedi’s unrequited love for, or infatuation with, Erin McKim over the space of what appears to be two or three months – is the focus of practically every scene and shot. The film’s minimalism is not merely the result of its limited number of settings, camera angles, characters, and dramatic situations but also of the limited number of emotions and behavioral patterns available to the characters.

The strengths of this concentrated approach are both comic and analytical; the results never stray from the recognizable and lifelike. The film’s multiple repetitions lampoon the monotony of romantic obsession and the monotony of a life-style that simultaneously supports and thwarts such an obsession.

1.00GB | 1 h 24 min | 708×531 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/FA79E2F8C226DDE/A_Little_Stiff_(1991).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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