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For this film shoot, the crew had nothing more than a 16mm reel at their disposal, with a mere 30 meters of film left in it; equivalent to 3 minutes of actual footage. As one can imagine, this essentially forced them to ration everything down to the last second as far as the duration of each shot was concerned. Another bothersome factor was having to shoot without a clapper-board as a way of getting in as many shots as possible.

For the actual shooting of this short feature, the crew ended having only 30 meters of 16mm film to work with, the sudden low supply made it such that precautionary measures involving the calculation of time down to the very last second were put into place in regards to every single remaining sequence all the way to the end so as to finish shot list and thus the telling of the story.

For this reason, upon watching the completed version of a film, one often sees a dark sequence like a fade to black for a length of time, or a dark piece missing from a much larger puzzle in a space which may originally have been reserved for a sequence that in fact was never filmed as if to say that all unnecessary sequences will specifically not be shot in the hopes of laying out the plot as simply as possible. The seemingly empty space this creates ultimately shows the spectator that something belongs there, some action has taken its' course and theoretically should appear but instead of disconcerting it serves the function of an ellipsis, or a jump in time, when viewing the feature as a whole.

Sergi Rubió signs his work with his Myspace Official Site link at the very end of the credits, instead of the name of the production company, the distributor or at least the name of the person who owned the rights, not to mention the closing titles which one would find at the end of just about any commercial film.

Features The Crying Game (1992)