The Frame (film)

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The Frame
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Directed byJamin Winans
Written byJamin Winans
Produced byKiowa Winans
StarringDavid Carranza Tiffany Mualem Cal Bartlett Christopher Soren Kelly Anthony Nuccio
CinematographyRobert Muratore
Edited byJamin Winans
Music byJamin Winans
Production
company
Double Edge Films
Distributed byDouble Edge Films
Release date
  • October 17, 2014 (2014-10-17)
Running time
127 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Frame is a 2014 American science fiction film, written and directed by Jamin Winans and starring David Carranza and Tiffany Mualem. It was produced by Winans's own independent production company, Double Edge Films, with Kiowa K. Winans, and shot by cinematographer Robert Muratore in locations around Denver, Colorado. It is the follow-up to the 2009 science fiction fantasy film Ink , also written and directed by Jamin Winans. The Frame played at the 2015 Sitges Film Festival [1] in Spain, the 2015 Imagine Film Festival [2] in Amsterdam and the 2015 Fantaspoa Film Festival [3] in Brazil.

Contents

Cast

Inspirations and themes

Winans told an interviewer for Fast Cheap Movie Thoughts: [4]

"Ultimately I wanted to make a movie about the feeling of being abandoned by God. I wanted to explore the questions of God's existence, God's nature (benevolent or malevolent) and how we struggle between control and submission. The writing process for me always starts with images. I'll get an image of a moment and begin asking questions. Those questions eventually lead me to knowing the character and what brought him/her to that moment. With The Frame there were two primary images I started with: a man physically fighting to get out of a cage, and the man picking up a violin. I work for months (if not years) on an extensive outline and then write the actual script fairly quickly."

In the same interview, Winans had this to say about the process of writing the score for the film:

"I usually start working on the music at the script phase. The music helps me write and the writing helps me compose. With The Frame I composed about 75% of it before we started shooting and I was able to use that on set for key moments. Then, in the edit, I bounced back and forth between cutting and tweaking the music."

Reception

Film School Rejects [5] gave the film a B+ rating, with Chief Film Critic Rob Hunter writing:

Like Christopher Nolan on a budget, writer/director Jamin Winans (Ink) creates worlds where imagination and emotion trump logic and traditional cohesion. That’s not a criticism of either man’s talents — instead it’s just to say that both place a high premium on the way their films make us feel and the ideas we’re left to mull over in our minds once the credits have rolled. Winans’ latest film, The Frame, continues that theme as it presents viewers with a beautiful, sci-fi tinged love story fueled by fate, forgiveness and wonder.

Jason Heller, writing for Westword [6] in an extensive interview and review writes:

The Frame turns out to be a marvel. It's not anything like Ink, but the vibe is the same: Normal people full of everyday dreams, faults and fears suddenly have their foundation of reality yanked out from under them. How they cope with that crisis is not only intellectually challenging, it's emotionally devastating.

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