Telephone Pole Numbering System 
| Starring: | Dick Arnold, Mark Wilt |
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| Country: | U S A |
| Created: | 2006 |
| Runtime: | 84 min. |
| Member: | TheFilmCompany |
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Film Description:
Synopsis
In William Weiss's THE TELEPHONE POLE NUMBERING SYSTEM, two lonely souls are looking to make a connection. Robert and Walt, formerly boyhood pals, presently neighborhood eccentrics, have a new hobby refining the confusing system of numbers used by utility companies to identify telephone poles. It's a get-rich-quick scheme, a community service, therapy. The two encounter an unlikely accomplice in Theanna, the city's underground oracle of all things lost and found, thanks to her catalogue of postings collected off telephone poles. Theanna, and her faithful dog Tattoo, keep a close eye on Robert and Walt as they navigate city streets and forest pathways, industriously attempting to apply their own system of logic and meaning to the telephone pole numbering system. But as Robert and Walt soon learn, sometimes the answers to life's seemingly complicated questions are remarkably simple.
Forms: Narrative Fiction, Feature
Genres: Independent
Cast & Crew
Gregg Lachow (Producer), Joy Fairfeild (Producer)
PerformanceDick Arnold (Lead Actor), Elizabeth Arnold (Supporting Actor), Gretchen Kritch (Supporting Actor), Jay Zorich (Supporting Actor), Mark Wilt (Lead Actor), Pamela Morris (Supporting Actor)
CameraBen Kasulke (Cinematographer/DP)
Art DepartmentTania Kupczak (Production Designer)
Post ProductionBrandon Schaeffer (Picture Editor), Cheryl Hidalgo (Picture Editor)
MusicJason Staczek (Original Music/Composer)
After completing "Seemann, Deine Heimat Ist Das Meer" in 2000, William began working on "The Emergency Pants Collection." Comprised of nine short films, the collection premiered to critical and popular acclaim in October 2004. One of the films "Have You Seen Me?" received the Best Experimental Film award at the 2005 Northwest Film and Video Festival in Portland, Oregon. In 2005 William completed his first feature film, "The Telephone Pole Numbering System" after being offered an unrestricted greenlight by The Film Company.
William operates his own 16mm production and post-production studio, Synaesthetic Filmproduktions, where he offers assistance to artists who want to make films the way it used to be done.
We assembled a cast of actors that shared our spontaneous, creative spirit towards the project and wrote each day's scenes during improvised rehearsals of situations that the actors and I invented while the crew was lighting and dressing the sets. As production developed, I realized that the concept of the numbering system was not so much the central plotline as it was a metaphor for the eternal nature of curiosity that keeps us all young. And it also became apparent that the same theme was evident in production of the film itself. As filmmakers challenging conventional methods of filmmaking, we needed to unlearn all the expectations we had of film production. We didn't rely on scripts, schedules and budgets in order to mimic the intent of some preconceived notion of a movie. Instead we faced a daily reliance on reminding ourselves of what we love about filmmaking inventing and telling stories.
In the case of THE TELEPHONE POLE NUMBERING SYSTEM, both the fictional story and the story of its production are about making connections between the real world and our imaginations, and living each day like a child at play.
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1 Comments about Telephone Pole Numbering System
Jan 16, 2007 11:31AM
Seems like a very original movie concept. I'm excited to learn more.
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