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The Chase

April 9th, 2005 @ 3:PM

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  • First independent film made in Cleveland with wire-fu work!
  • Screened at the Queen City Video Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 13, 2003
  • Available online viewing at ashortfilm.com
  • Featured, promoted and distributed by AtomFilms.com
  • Showing in rotation during Mondays at 10pm on Adelphia's Cleveland Channel 26 and/or 52
  • Played on October 25th at MileHiCon 35, the Largest Science-Fiction Literary Convention in the Rocky Mountain Region
  • Screened at the Mid-Ohio-Con, Ohio's Best Comic Book & Pop Culture Party from Nov 29 and 30 at Hilton Colubms, Ohio
  • Featured as favorite site at Kungfu Cinema
  • Featured at Infilm.net, a german website dedicated to present and promote international short films of all genres.
     
The Diva
The Chaser
The Rescuers

The Chase, written and directed by Johnny Wu, follows the plight of a young beauty as she flees from a mysterious pursuer through the halls of an abandoned building. As she is trapped at a dead end inside of a freight elevator, all hope seems lost until fate places two rescuers in the pursuer's path. A fight ensues, but who will win? And is our damsel in distress any safer if the other guys win?

The Chase is the result of a self-imposed challenge by the filmmakers to produce a silent, yet compelling martial-arts driven story in an enclosed environment. Containing highly-choreographed fight scenes, stunt performers, wire-work and stylized lighting; The Chase is an attempt to create a live-action Anime.

Using the same location and scenario, a film version was shot by film purist Robert Banks for the purpose of comparison between style and medium.

     
A short script by Johnny Wu    
     
     
     
DV shoot, directed by
Johnny Wu
     
   
16mm shoot, directed by
Robert Banks
   

a experimental project to compare images between DV and 16mm.
     
behind the scene pictures with Johnny Wu's shoot
 
behind the scene pictures with Robert Banks' shoot
   

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