Local Music Video Director Indie GoGo's His Way Back Into Features
By Katie Karpowicz in Arts & Entertainment on Jun 9, 2014 7:30PM
Peter Collins Campbell's success story as a local music video director is a charmed one. A self-taught filmmaker, Campbell linked up with trumpet player Nico Segal (formerly of Kids These Days, currently playing in Chance the Rapper's touring band The Social Experiment) to do research for a script he was writing that involved Chicago's hip-hop scene. He and Segal bonded, began networking together and soon Campbell was in the director's seat for videos from acts like Tokio, M&O and Segal himself.
Campbell has decided it's high time to get back into features though and he's asking for Chicago's support. The director's Indie GoGo campaign has surpassed his $6,500 goal as of Monday morning with nearly four days left to go.
Though he's worked on five similarly short films in the past, Campbell has never directed anything of this scale. He may be taking temporary leave from the world of music videos, but Campbell still enlisted some of his musician friends he's made along the way to debut new songs on his campaign page (including The O'Mys and Noname Gypsy) and help spread the word about it.
The film has quite a complex concept—part thriller, part rom-com, part dark comedy, part horror film about a a man's infatuation over his barista and how it leads both of them to be held hostage by a crazed capturer—Campbell insists this is not an experimental art project. It's a thriller that will hopefully capture the viewer's short-lived attention span. He estimates the final product will run somewhere between eight and ten minutes long.
Campbell hopes to complete WorseBehaviour by December—a goal that must seem much more attainable now that funding isn't a problem—and shop it around to various film festivals.
The campaign ends this Thursday, June 12, at 11:59 p.m. You can still be a part of this project even though Campbell has already hit his funding goal. The filmmaker says extra funds will go towards making the movie even better than he originally intended with better equipment, larger crews and more money for film festival fees. Donate here.