The photographer-turned-filmmaker walks us through her blackly comic debut, involving eco-disaster, euthanasia, family, and blood. Lots of blood.
room where Caitlin Cronenberg is sitting, idly checking her phone and chatting with a friend, and you will be greeted by: CHAOS.
Right, but surely the movie reflects her own sense of humor, right? “Oh, that’s very much sense of humor,” she answers. Her eyes lock in. “I would say I’m fucking hilarious.” Cronenberg worked for the magazine as a photographer for several years, chronicling the occasional bar mitzvah or two on the side for extra cash. Eventually, she graduated from shooting unit stills on non-union film productions to shooting unit stills on union productions, and started doing celebrity portraits for bigger and bigger outlets. Soon, Caitlin was one of those in-demand shutterbugs you called when you wanted offbeat, moody, and/or downright lyrical photo spreads of famous people.
She pauses for a second, then adds, “We were trying to hold a mirror up to a world we saw through Covid, but not try and make people relive the Covid experience. Do you know what I mean? Like, let our grandchildren watch movies about that era decades from now, and we can sit back with a sense of distance and go, ‘Yeah, that’s exactly how it was.’ It’s too soon. But you really saw how people handle themselves, or don’t, during a crisis when that happened.
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