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NYFF '08: Antonio Campos

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NYFF '08: Antonio Campos

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We talked with Antonio Campos about his debut film, AFTERSCHOOL, which follows Robert, a reclusive boarding-school student who, while shooting B-roll for a school project, unintentionally films two of his fellow students overdosing. In the aftermath of their deaths, the film contrasts the school's mourning process with Robert's own futile search for solace.

In our interview, Campos talks about the teen-tragedy genre, the point-of-view shooting style, and the pervasiveness of media in our modern world.

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Transcript:

Antonio Campos, twenty-four, is a native New Yorker. He has directed more than 20 short films and documentaries and most recently he completed a clip for The Shins’ “Sleeping Lessons.” Aged 21, his short film Buy It Now had its world premiere at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Cinefondation, where it won First Prize. Campos was accepted into the Cannes Residence Program a year later where he wrote the script for Afterschool. In between completing the Residence and the production of Afterschool, Campos appeared at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 with his short film The Last 15, of two American shorts in competition that year. A student at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in the film studies department, Campos recently formed the production company Borderline Films with his NYU classmates Josh Mond and Sean Durkin. Afterschool is his feature film debut.

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