Team Picture

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Team Picture
Team Picture film poster.jpg
Team Picture film poster
Directed by Kentucker Audley
Written byKentucker Audley
Produced by Brian Takats
StarringAndrew Nenninger
Timothy Morton
Amanda Harris
Chellie Bowman
Bill Baker
CinematographyTimothy Morton
Edited byKentuker Audley
Music byBen Siler
Kentucker Audley
Production
company
Distributed byBenten Films
Release date
  • October 10, 2007 (2007-10-10)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Team Picture is a 2007 mumblecore drama film written and directed by filmmaker Kentucker Audley. [1] [2] The film is a character study of a young man and his relationship with an ambitious girlfriend, his dealings with the familial and societal pressures to go to college, and his considerations of a future as a musician. [3] [4] [5]

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The filmmaker was named in August 2007 to Filmmaker Magazine's annual list of "25 New Faces of Independent Film". [6]

Synopsis

Erik (Kentucker Audley) quits his job at his step dad's (Greg Gaston) sporting goods store, mutually breaks up with his girlfriend Jessica (Shawna Wheeler) and meets a new girl Sarah (Amanda Harris). At a crossroads he decides to travel with Sarah to Chicago. His roommate (Timothy Morton) stays in Memphis to lounge at a baby pool in the front yard and perform at coffee shops. [3] [1]

Cast

Release

The film premiered at the Indie Memphis Film Festival on October 19, 2007, [3] and was released on DVD by Benten Films on August 26, 2008, [7] containing director commentary, a new epilogue to the film, a short by Audley and deleted scenes. [1]

Critical reception

Michael Atkinson of Independent Film Channel gave a mixed review of the film, summarizing, "Charming as it is, maybe like Jayasundara's film (The Forsaken Land), Team Picture isn't realism but rather a heightened Beckettian void". [8] John Beifuss of Memphis Commercial Appeal praised the film, writing that it was "the richest and most assured local feature in the festival", that it "may represent the most promising feature debut for a Memphis filmmaker", and that the "movie's characters and situations are so recognizable and distressingly funny that they are likely to unnerve viewers who aren't bored by the film's lack of overt drama or puzzled by its home-video esthetic". [3] Conversely, Jennifer Aldoretta of Technique panned the film as "mediocre and borderline terrible", noting only that writer and director Audley was "the only one involved who seems like he actually knew what he was doing." [9] Monika Bartyzel of Cinematical wrote that the film, while "not for moviegoers looking for a fast-paced, tightly written story, Team Picture does have some charm as a sort of dead-pan voyeuristic look into modern slackers." [10] Noel Megahey of DVD Times notes an autobiographical character to the film, noting that the film's lead character is played by the writer-director himself, and compliments by writing "its simple philosophy of taking time to find enjoyment is a sound one and it’s an honest sentiment that arises naturally out of the characters". [11] Nick Dawson of Filmmaker Magazine commented that the film felt intimately real, writing "Nenninger's dialogue is scarily familiar, eschewing overly crafted Hollywood patter for the often comical idiosyncrasies of everyday speech." [1]

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  2. ↑ Pera, Brian (November 3, 2008). "Real Escapism: Kentucker Audley and Team Picture". The Fanzine. Retrieved May 29, 2009.
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  4. ↑ Herrington, Chris (October 18, 2007). "Team Picture: Something Real". Memphis Flyer . Retrieved May 29, 2009.
  5. ↑ Beifuss, John (August 7, 2007). "News in the Arts Elvis' film co-stars gathering to recall the King: Local Hero". Memphis Commercial Appeal . Retrieved May 29, 2009.
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