Three committed or should be filmmakers set out one summer to
collaborate on a project that would alter the way they perceived the
craft, their lives and
the nature of art itself.
Creative partners, Gordon Currie ( Left Behind, The Sentinel, Friday the 13th)and Andrew Kenneth Martin ( Train 48, Relic Hunter, Queer as Folk) had worked together before, but Magnus Opus posed new and exciting creative challenges. Andrew and Gordon were fussed into one mind, both writing, directing and editing the film. Andrew DOP'd while Gordon boomed, attached to the camera
with a sonic umbilical cord, for weeks these two were literarily inseparable.
Add to the mix, the lovely and talented Andrika Lawren (Much Music, My Parents House), who produced
a hell of a film for under 10,000 dollars, while darting in and out of
the camera's frame bestowing the film with a grounded performance
as the metaphorical filmmaker. This well oiled triad created a feature film whose process was as unique as the concept itself.
The creative triumbrant endured hours of writing, casting, pre-pro, shooting and capped it all off with the daunting task off widdling 82 hours of excellent improvised footage down to 90 minutes. In the end, all three relationships remain in tact but all agree never to do that again.
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