FAQ

Thanks for asking. After immersing ourselves with hours of late 1980's pop tunes and having a lot of fun doing it, we decided to compose our own tune. So to answer your question - Andrew Poole Todd composed an original tune especially for the nude beach scene.

The unusual circumstances surrounding "The Berlin Bride's" completion could be a film in itself. Films are restored all the time, but for us the process was both restoration, and more importantly, after more than 30 years, film completion. The 16mm material we shot in Berlin for "Concerto for the Right Hand" in the late 80's and we used to complete "The Berlin Bride", was released back to me through the German Film Archive in 2013 while in Berlin for the premiere of "House of Last Things". A digital transfer was created in Seattle but it only revealed how damaged the material had become. Thousands of instances of dirt, scratches, and flicker had to be manually removed before we could even consider my plans to finally complete the film that was still very special to me. Two years later, we were ready to give it a try. The challenge was to integrate the 1980's footage with new footage (142 additional shots) filmed entirely in Portland, Oregon 2016 - 2018 -- and to match seamlessly as possible the quality and grain of the original 16mm footage -- and finally, working with composer Andrew Poole Todd, to sound design the entire film and create a stereo music score in Portland, Oregon. In short, with 142 additional shots, new score and sound design, we finally finished the strange fantasy I started in Berlin more than thirty years ago.