SILVER BULLETS Spotlight

This trilogy by director Joe Swanberg deals with autobiographical issues of filmmaking, sex and the collision of art and reality. SILVER BULLETS is the first film in the series and it premiered earlier this year at the Berlin Film Festival, alongside ART HISTORY. In the film, director Ti West plays a filmmaker directing a horror movie He casts the young and beautiful Kate Lyn Shiel as the lead, much to her delight . Not as delighted is Shiel’s boyfriend (played by Swanberg), who suspects that her new director has amorous intentions and that he plans to make their collaboration more carnal than artistic Swanberg’s character is also a filmmaker himself, but a creator of much more artistic fare, who has monologues questioning the value of his life and his films. It ‘s an incredibly candid and naked outpouring of a filmmaker exploring his obsessions on the screen.