2002 Great Lakes Independent Film Festival

Member

Category: Narrative Short  13min 26sec
Director: David Brooks

19 year-old boy is driving around LA. He’s looking for the perfect Mercedes, BMW, Lexus. Preferably a late-model. A late model rolling through a stop sign, or breaking some other traffic law. He’s looking for the perfect car to crash into and claim on their insurance. His head on collision with Los Angeles has left him hemorrhaging confusion and consumerism. Member is a hypnotic, hallucinogenic, fast-cut, 15 minute swerve and screech around the streets of Los Angeles , driven by 19 year-old Gianni. You’re not just in the car with him - you are inside his head. His mind has been tainted and twisted by LA - the ubiquitous ad campaigns that bang at his brain, the pressure to ‘con-fucking-form’, the desire to belong. Now he wants retribution. Prowling in his snarled metal machine he is looking for the perfect vehicle - he’s thinking maybe a BMW, Lexus, Mercedes - one that is breaking a traffic law so he can slam into it and claim his slice of insurance pie. Sucking in his favorite brand of carcinogen, the ‘goodlooking corpse-to-be’ lets vulnerability and vitriol spit forth...

Principal Cast:
Josh Hartnett

Director: David Brooks
Brooks is a US/Brit who studied topology at MIT but then became a film editor. He has cut commercials,  films  and videos for amongst others Tony Kaye, Ridley Scott, Spike Jonze, and Baz Luhrman. Brooks spent his first decade in California living in South Central Los Angeles and says, 'Honesty in the today's cinema is an entertaining spectacle. Who's going to be honest when there's such massive rewards at stake?'