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Dark Heart

(2009, USA, Robert Joseph Butler)


 


Starring: Tiren Jhames, John Anton, Fred McKenzie, and Jimmy Doom
 
Director of Photography: Robert Skates
 
Production Designer: Mark C. Davis Jr.
 
Original Music Scored and Composed by David Bateman
 
Editor: Rob Frenette
 
The Production
 
Was produced out of the Motion Picture Institute of Michigan where this year's students film students (2009 Graduates) constructed sets, auditioned and brought in actors, then set the lighting, shot the film, and recorded the audio in a real world production environment. The film was directed by by 2008 MPI Graduate Robert Joseph Butler and the class was lectured by Detroit Cinematographer Robert Skates.
 
Synopsis
 
Daniel Saxon (Tiren Jhames) is an aspiring writer with a life that mirrors the twisted world he habits: vacant. Abandoned. Burnt-out and fragile. While struggling to finish both his novel-in-progress and the unwritten story of his life. As Daniel continues to write, Daniel begins to struggle against his dormant inner demons - cryptic memories from his past come to haunt him. Nightmares of his father, and a deafening heartbeat plague him without remorse, keeping his relationship with his father remote and detached, and matters are only complicated when they begin spilling over into reality. 

Daniel is forced down a dark journey of insanity, hatred, writer's block, and murder - and the consequences that ultimately arise.
 
"Hypnotic and alluring, R.J. Butler's vision stay's with you"

Jerry Dennis-Movie Geeks United