Match Made

Is it a match made in heaven? A first date is initiated because of a strange shared interest in their online dating profiles.

This film came together in the most spontaneous way. Having met Ben at a going away party for our mutual friend Justin, who was becoming a monk at the time. We had a very short chat about making films, luckily the conversation continued over email and the weekend following I was cycling to Connecticut from Amherst Massachusetts, with a little help from Amtrak.

I hadn’t really spent any time with Ben, or our collaborator John. But the three of us became so very close in that weekend, with only three hours sleep over three days it was sure to be bonding.

The idea for Match Made came about simply by riffing the conversation that you see in the film, we ad libbed the entire video out of the blue and then we refined it. What you see in the final film is basically what we improvised soon after learning of the 48 hour film themes.