Work In Sanity

Telemarketers Need Love, Too.

Director’s Statement:

In 2002 I participated in the i48, Idaho’s 48 hour movie making contest.  It was thrilling to see what came out of such a short, rushed period of time.  I wondered how much that sense of urgency added to the creative process.  It’s that urgency that I tried to bring to “Work in Sanity.”  That may sound absurd to say that about a movie that has been 6 years in the making, but each segment was made in short bursts of urgency between the obligations of other projects.  Not all of them were made in a mere 48 hours, but they were all shot and edited in quick, frantic bursts of activity.  The writing took on a different work-flow, but was still done in a short period of time.  Each short story, like the stories in the movie, were written between phone calls, when I worked as a telemarketer in 1999, and then later adapted into scripts, with the help of Thomas Brown.

Many of the locations were the actual work places of myself and other family members, sometimes filmed by sneaking in after hours, sometimes shot on the sly during work hours.

                Completing this project has been an emotional journey, as I try to make peace with the ways that I have integrated my creative life into my “day job” life.  Already the relationship between my creative projects and my practical employment has changed drastically since I began work on “Work In Sanity”.

-Chad Rinn