A Morning Stroll      (30.03.11)
  

   Grant Orchard is just one of a tidy number or directors and creatives
   working under the umbrella of Studio AKA, in London. He's created
   advertising spots for Compaq, Virgin, Skype, BUPA, Barclays
   and MTV. Meanwhile, his short film cv includes "Welome to Glaringly"
   and "Park Life" - films which led, in turn, to a series of "Lovesport"
   shorts for QOOBTV...

   And now, he's got a new long-gestating short film to show us.
   Or possibly three. You see, "A Morning Stroll" is loosely based
   on a real-life event recounted in "True Tales of American Life" by
   Paul Aster, and the story is told in three distinctly different ways.
   The 6’47” film has been self-funded by Studio AKA and it's going
   to premiere at this year's Annecy festival, in June. You'll find
   a trailer over on the studio's official site. And here's the
   equally-official studio spiel:

  Based loosely on a real life event recounted in Paul Auster’s
  brilliant book ‘True Tales of American Life‘, ‘A MORNING
  STROLL’ tells the story of one New Yorker’s early morning
  encounter with a chicken, an event that plays out over
  100 years.

  

  Director Grant Orchard was looking to do a quick project
  as a break from a large, ever more complicated script he
  was working on, and had always loved this one paragraph
  account of a city dweller’s casual encounter with a chicken.
  Sweetly humorous & intriguing - but also brilliantly slight -
  the story seemed ideal. Ultimately this new ‘small, quick
  project’ ended up taking 2 years to make during studio
  downtime, and in addition, instead of simply making one
  short story, Grant decided the story would be 3 times
  better if we made it 3 times in 3 different ways!

  As Grant says; 'There is something in the constant
  repetition of the story that intrigues and yet underlines
  the utter whimsy of it all, and I like the narrative conflict
  in that.’

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