No One Ever Knows Anyone from The Rules of Attraction (2002)

These scenes were shot at the University of Redlands, just near Palm Springs, in the middle of a Summer heatwave. The crew was wearing shorts and Tshirts during shooting because it was so hot. For the ampitheater sequence we used a combination of white snow blankets, foam, cornstarch snowflakes, and snow generated from chipping large slabs of ice that we trucked in. The snowflake that turns into a tear was computer generated, and was impossibly difficult to achieve on our budget back in 2002. Note: