Upcoming film Sound of My Voice is a crazy, time-traveling
journey that follows a young couple as they try to unmask a mysterious
cult leader named Maggie. But it started out as a small-budget labor of
love.In the making-of video above, exclusive to Wired, Sound of My Voice writer/director Zal Batmanglij and writer/star Brit Marling talk about the raw cinematic experience of watching their film, and the precise way its tale of a cult and its enigmatic leader will mess with audience members’ heads. They also explain the stripped-down way in which they made their movie.
“It was communal filmmaking,”Batmanglij says. “We wanted to tell a story. We just kept climbing up the mountain every day, little bit by bit, without thinking about how it was going to be received or any of those things.”
The director also notes that there is “something really beautiful about a lo-fi film” and said he hopes that’s the feeling audiences take away. Marling, who plays cult leader Maggie, said she hopes Sound of My Voice serves as a mirror for what’s happening in the culture right now.
“You’re trying always to get better at telling the truth — both from the writing perspective and the acting perspective — to let go of artifice,” says Marling (who starred in last year’s indie hit Another Earth).
Sound of My Voice, which got a lot of buzz when it screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011, was made for less than $500,000. But even so, Batmanglij told Wired back when it was still showing in festivals that he and Marling have an outline for a three-film series.
Source: Wired
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