Iris (1994)

With Parker Posey and Sabrina Lloyd with music by The Breeders. The job, should you choose to accept it: two young women playing out roles associated with the purchasing of real estate. Questions regarding the worries of ownership versus the worries of being uninvested. Intimations of a life filled with effort and debt. Tie this all together somehow with lines from the song, Iris by the Breeders. (From my notebook, April 1994) This was commissioned by the Red Hot Organizations No Alternative project. Red Hot organizes pop culture projects to help raise money for continued AIDS and HIV related research. Here, us filmmakers were asked to make something using one or another of the various songs contributed by a host of great Alternative Rock musicians of the day. I liked this live version of The Breeders Iris and used some of the lyrics as dialogue along with scraps of the recording. Besides this, it provided me with an opportunity to audition Sabrina Lloyd (whom I would not work with for another ten ye