Chemical Cut Page #2

Synopsis: A misfit turned L.A. model struggles to define herself in the soul-crushing fashion industry, until a mysterious woman's haunting performance strikes her imagination.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Marjorie Conrad
Production: Recreation Media
  1 nomination.
Year:
2016
83 min
Website
17 Views


away all that pulp, you know.

- Listen, I'll tell you

a secret, you can get

a dehydrator , you can

compact all that pulp

and make these lovely

crispy yummy crackers.

- Oh my gosh.

- I'm ready to work, you're ready?

- [Irene] Yeah, I'm

not leaving till we get

a great shot.

- Wonderful, well we are

not reinventing the wheel

here so hopefully we're

all done by three, okay?

Alright let's get started.

Don't move to much, let

me give you the directions

okay a little bit to your

left, your other left,

okay great, hmm, too much,

not that much profile okay,

chin down, in a little

bit gimme your eyes,

very good, there, now we're talking.

Okay, great moving on.

- We're gonna change up the

jacket and we're gonna put

this shirt on.

- Nice okay, do the profiles.

Turn your head a little bit towards me

when you do that, there you go,

night three quarter shot, okay, turn.

- Susan how are you?

- I'm good, I'm doing

well, I'm really busy but,

you know that's great

so yeah, how about you?

- Yeah it's really crazy, I

just came back from Arizona

and I had no idea how it

looks like New York and LA

have sucked up all of

the creative people

out of the country, it's

like all the creatives,

all the artists all the pretty people,

they've all moved from

other parts of the country

to LA and New York,

and nobody else exists.

- That's true like totally.

- [Makeup Artist] Like my

family's back in the Midwest,

and they just think I'm

crazy going out in LA

doing makeup, but I mean, they're all

in the medical industry,

you know, doctors,

scientists, so, yeah it's a

whole other world out here.

Do you do a lot of beauty?

I'd really wanna do a beauty

shoot for my portfolio.

- [Susan] Uh, I could be down with that.

- [Makeup Artist] Okay,

okay yeah, I just,

I really need a model

with a good strong face.

- [Man] Ed Haunts.

(laughing)

- [Susan] Totally.

(waves wooshing)

- I had my first shoot yesterday.

- Really?

How'd it go?

- They didn't really

care about the picture

they talked about themselves, that's it.

- Yeah, big f***ing surprise,

they don't care about being creative,

so I don't get why you're

getting involved with them.

- I have reasons.

- Like what?

You're not getting paid,

you're not gonna get

any respect like ever, and

you'll never be young enough,

so you, you're bored.

- No, I like image making.

- You didn't get cool

images, you look like sh*t.

Why are you modeling, really?

- It's complicated.

- I'm sure it is, yeah.

Oh Arthur, I've been an

ugly duckling my whole life

just let me be a swan this

one time, please, please.

- My next job will be better.

In a year I'll be unsignable

so I'll just do this now.

- Why are you running away?

(laughing)

(waves wooshing)

Yeah, drown for all I care.

You're so annoying.

Oh my God.

I get it, I get it.

You can come out now.

- [Man on P.A.] Doors are closing.

- You know, what do you

wanna say f*** you

when you got nothing left.

Nobody wants to f*** me now.

I'm a Vietnam Vet.

Probably did more than five years

and the rest you

motherfuckers all day long.

Nobody wants to f*** you

when you got nothing left.

Why can't people come together?

Get rid of the grub, get rid of it.

Now I don't wanna tell

you how to live your life,

who am I to tell anybody

how to live their life.

I'm just telling what I know.

My son, said he's been with a boy.

When I ask him why he go ahead, he said

I just wanted to see what

it was like with a boy.

When my wife and I were together,

we made babies all day long.

I just, it cost less to keep her.

Less to keep her.

(man talking over P.A)

My stop.

(Skype notification resonating)

- It's 3 a.m. is something wrong?

- Nothing is wrong Irene,

what I need you to do, okay,

is open your email and

there's a Word doc in there,

so open the Word doc, okay,

you know how to do that, right?

Read what I sent you

and just, there might be

one or two typos okay, that's all,

you know it's like, the

devil's in the details,

please, save me the groundwork,

and send it back to me it'll be perfect.

- Can you,

can you give me a day or two?

- No, open your eyes, open your emails.

- Okay, I'll do it right now.

- Come on, yes, come on please.

- [Arthur] He is stead fast,

resolute, and utterly silent

he feels the cannon stead

fastly, resolutely, silently,

as water he is accustomed

to pounding against

ocean side cliffs making

them crumble to the ground.

All the while he is indifferent.

(phone buzzing)

(exhaling)

- I booked you for a free

test today at 10 a.m.

Foundation applied, mascara,

eyelashes if you have 'em,

nude manicure, buffed

pedicure, bikini ready,

nude strapless bra, nude regular bra,

and simple black pumps.

- Why don't you just

start by bending over?

Yeah, yeah, turn around and ben over.

It's not as naughty as I thought,

turn back around?

Okay, okay.

Okay, do something different,

something different.

That's better, that's better.

That's creative, very nice,

very creative, good.

If you're okay I'll just

shoot this just for fun.

Open you mouth really wide,

now shut your eyes.

Shut your f***ing eyes.

Now hang your head.

Perfect, you know what I mean,

modeling it's about taking

something in your life,

something from your life.

You understand what I'm

saying when I say life?

Okay, you understand,

and then, you bring it

into your work, do you know

what I mean when I say work?

Yes okay so be in your life,

right now we're just me and you,

we're in our lives,

make me wanna f*** you,

right now, like we're gonna f***

right here right now, like

you're gonna f*** me right there

make me wanna do it, right now.

This is not a game okay, if you do it,

I'm gonna f*** you, you understand?

That's how real I want it to be.

Okay, good, let's go.

Let's go.

What are you doing?

Alright let's just have

a little chat alright?

Just you and me, alright,

no more photographer model, okay?

Just person to person, alright.

You've f***ed before, right?

Right?

So you know how to do that,

I know you do, I see it in your eyes,

I know you made a man wanna do that.

Alright okay, that's yes,

now bring that into work,

yeah and I'm gonna take a picture of it

if you can manifest it, I'm

gonna record it on the photo

sensor, bring it in,

bring it into work now,

bring it into work zone,

work, work, work, work,

come on let's manifest

it, ah, you almost had it,

I almost took a picture.

Alright, I didn't wanna do this,

let's just try something a

little more conventional,

just be an innocent but

dirty little girl.

Innocent but dirty.

- They're not using

those, they're too artsy,

it was a nine hour shoot,

three hour roundtrip,

free work no food.

- You can quit.

- I'm not gonna quit, I just started.

- I don't know hun, I don't

know what to tell you,

I don't know what they're looking for,

but if you're getting stressed out,

I think you should exercise more.

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Marjorie Conrad

Marjorie Conrad (born October 1, 1988) is a French-American filmmaker and model. She is known for placing fourth on America's Next Top Model (Cycle 11), and for her narrative feature film Chemical Cut (2016). more…

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