I met Mike at college in 2006. We share a lot of interests and became fast friends. I noticed when visiting his home that he had a small bridge in his backyard. I had just acquired a Bell and Howell Filmo 70, a few rolls of 16 mm black and white reversal film and was dying, after months of dull practice shooting for classes, to shoot a narrative. A few weeks later, and more than a year before we formed Probably Okay, we had shot Bridge.
It’s still one of my favorites. I like its quirkiness, its open-ended ending and the lovely, surreal quality of the film stock. Lately I’ve been tinkering with the idea of shooting two more films similar in narrative and visual quality; a silent, slightly surreal horror trilogy. Until then, here’s Bridge, only slightly cleaned up and re-purposed as a short for our comedy channel.