Smile for the Camera

Smile for the Camera is a short 2005 independent film. It was directed, produced and edited by Jordan Galland, who cowrote the story and screenplay with Sean Lennon. Galland and Lennon also wrote the theme song, which was performed by Gallands Domino band mate Domino Kirke and her sister Jemima Kirke. Although the films cast, with the exception of Erika Thormahlen, had no previous acting experience, Milla Jovovich and Sean Lennon make cameo appearances as Boxheads. The film has been released on DVD.

Joined by her friend Mark, who has been analyzing and enhancing the photographs, Kate discovers that the young girls image can be found hidden in all the pictures she had taken. The trail of photographs leads Kate and Mark to the home of Walter, the domineering leader of the Boxhead cult. Walter bombards his guests with pompous opinions about porcupines, as his young wife Lisa silently cowers in his presence and vents her emotions on a turnip mash. After dinner, Walter overpowers his guests. Kate is chained in a basement dungeon and told to smile for the camera as she fights back her tears. Mark is taken to a remote place in the woods to be sacrificed in a Boxhead ritual. Mysteriously freed from her chains by the young piglet, Kate escapes and follows Walter into the teacup, where she fights for her life and exacts her revenge.The film won the Best Short ScreenCraft Award at the 2005 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, and was shown at the 2005 Big Apple Core Film Festival. ........

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