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The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Foe with Garth Davis and Darius Marder (Ep. 436)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6848 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Director Garth Davis discusses his new film, Foe, with fellow Director Darius Marder in a Q&A at the DGA theater in New York. In the conversation, Davis discusses playing with themes of reality, identity and change, utilizing locations as their own character, and working with actors to create scenes with multilayered meanings. The film tells the story of Hen and Junior, who farm a secluded piece of land which has been in Junior’s family for generations. But their quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://dga.org/Events/2023/November2023/FOE_QnA_1023.aspx

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The house for me kind of becomes like a house of ghosts.

0:04.3

It becomes all the things that Junior's holding on to

0:06.9

and then the people for them are holding onto that you feel responsible for.

0:10.8

You become the custody of other people's kind of desires.

0:14.9

And all of that I found really fascinating,

0:17.1

especially up against a futuristic world,

0:20.5

especially what are you holding on to now?

0:22.7

I mean, everything's dying.

0:23.9

You don't actually farm it anymore.

0:25.8

And I guess at what point do you let go and change?

0:52.0

I'm going. Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

0:54.8

In this episode, a young couple encounter a haunting exploration of marriage and identity set in an uncertain world, and director

1:00.6

Garth Davis's thriller, Tho. The film tells the story of Hen and Jr., who farm a secluded

1:07.4

piece of land which has been in junior's family for generations,

1:15.6

but their quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal.

1:18.0

In addition to Foe, Davis's other directorial credits include the feature film Mary Magdalene

1:23.7

and episodes of the series, Top of the Lake, and Love My Way.

1:28.5

Davis received the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First

1:32.5

Time Feature Film for his 2016 film, Lion, and was nominated in the commercials category

1:38.2

for his U.S. Cellular Spot, Shadow Puppets.

1:42.7

Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in New York,

1:46.7

Davis spoke with director Darius Martyr about filming faux.

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