BEHIND THE SCENES

Director Daniel Cooper-Kamodsky talks about the unusual settings at the heart of the Louie’s encapsulation and explains some interesting facts behind the making of the ‘Louie Louie’:

"In this film I have touched on the very sensitive subject of human encapsulation, purposely utilizing a fairy-tale format to address it. In spite of the fact that I’m conveying this story in fantasy style I actually show it in an existent world and not in the unreal settings you would normally expect  in such a genre. I guess that ‘unreal settings’ were substituted with ‘unusual settings’ or should I say ‘bizarre settings’ in real world.

During the process of crafting this film I was also very much preoccupied with the psychological part of such encapsulation i.e. human behaviour during rejection and isolation, which could lead to an insidious form of entrapment.

In this bizarre plot Louie experiences a similar psychological state immediately after he’s turned into porcelain by his girlfriend’s wicked mother's magic spell and as it first appeared - with no prospect of surviving the ordeal.

To make our protagonist’s condition even more isolated and his unfolding drama even more controversial I’ve placed Louie in a very unusual and bizarre place: a public lavatory.

This kind of place is rarely discussed with loved ones, and generally considered to be unpleasant. So it was a challenge for me, as a director and cinematographer to make it appealing! At the same time I was trying  to effectively engage viewers and win their participation by narrating the story from the ‘loo‘s’ POV which was another uneasy task to perform."