This Is Chad Hartigan: a conversation with the director of "Little Fish"
In this episode of the Looking Closer podcast, filmmaker Chad Hartigan talks about his new sci-fi love story "Little Fish," its focus on the power of memory, and what it was like to make a pandemic-focused movie just in time for a real pandemic.
Imagine this: a pandemic that attacks the memory.
The streets are crowded with people meandering and confused. Lines form at the hospital for experimental treatments. Conspiracy theories claim the government has the cure. And two young lovers, desperate to escape the debilitating effects of the virus, are trying to figure out how to save not only their lives but their love.
In this hour-long "Master Shot" episode, focusing on the new sci-fi love story Little Fish, I consider why memory is on so many artists' minds right now.
And then I ask the Little Fish filmmaker himself: Chad Hartigan, the director of This Is Martin Bonner and Morris From America. We talk about what it was like to make a pandemic-focused movie just in time for a real pandemic; the themes emerging across Hartigan's growing filmography; and how the secret of making great art is — wait for it — love.
