Café in Fall

Micro-Short FIlm

Director/Producer: Forrest Sassaman
DoP: Jonathan Henderson
Café in Fall is a short film about daydreaming.

About Café in Fall

Café in Fall came about as a means to escape. I was feeling, and to some extent I imagine will always feel, a profoundly helpless mix of existential dread and confinement. I think that these days we all experience varying degrees of feeling trapped, and I think Café in Fall visually explores what it is like to allow your mind to wander away on a cloud.

Many of my films lately have been a result of gritty producing and team building. I think that in the independent space and with little resources, you have to be gritty to get anything done. I wrote Café in Fall so that my crew, all of whom are good friends and many of whom work in and around the industry and always seem to be doing me favors, would have as smooth a production day as possible without taking away from the film. I think that there is certainly a balancing act between making the set an enjoyable experience and ensuring the product is worthy of that experience, but regardless, to make a film and to direct, is to, in a sense, force one’s will upon others or, maybe more optimistically, inspiring others to force your will upon the world.
Maybe a part of that is getting your collaborators to internalize the experience itself.

I hope to do more of these little vignette movies throughout the seasons as a sort of workshop between larger projects - either personal or client. I think that the most important thing for a filmmaker is to get in their reps, and they must do this any way they possibly can.