BRYAN TAN
WRITER | DIRECTOR

In the past, during the frantic scramble of production, I have found it hard to avoid my thoughts being pulled into a narrow avenue of tunnel vision. When I was a film student, working on my senior film, Anomie, we required a central location that we found nearly impossible to obtain. We needed a house that had character, that looked old and lived in; not a suburban cardboard cut out. We needed several days of unobstructed access, with owners gracious enough to let us film a

Dark Dissonance is the oldest film I have chosen to feature on this website. It is also the most roughly hewn of these films. Production was a beast. I remember sneaking into the abandoned cement factory, outside town. Or another episode: cutting down a four inch sapling with nothing but my house key to make way for a gear truck, stuck in a rut. I question whether those stories are even worth telling. For better or worse, none of those adventures end up on screen. We cannot e