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...recently had the chance to interview Fisher, who remarked that his concept for the film sprang from his fond childhood remembrances of Boston’s legions of street performers. This long-held fondness, he continued, melded with an intellectual spirit that owed something to his “own love of language and ideas,” yielded a black-and-white film whose ideas and conceits can be surprisingly colorful. Questions about Han Solo, Thundercats and the meaning of life all get equal time at his table, and he’s as at ease wrangling a phone...
Though long a lover of film, Conversation For a Dollar is Fisher’s trial film. Filmed on a tight budget, production was difficult and tedious; Fisher says they “worked for four months, saved and borrowed enough to shoot and process three days of film, worked for two more months, saved and borrowed enough to shoot and process one more day of film, worked for four months, saved and borrowed enough to edit and have a print made,” all in order to nourish a half-hour-long independent film to maturity...
Ultimately, the sheer diversity of the subject matter, endlessly alternating between the skewed and the informative, ends up allowing the film as a whole to connect with every section of your mind in some manner, though it may not leave every part entirely sated. Fisher credited this “alternation of heavy and light material” in the film to the Taoist concept of “tai chi—the cosmic dialogue of yin and yang.” Indeed, he said, many of the film’s insights have their groundings...
...Fisher is currently in the process of submitting Conversation For a Dollar to film festivals, setting up screenings for the film at colleges and cinemas throughout North America and selling videotapes of the film through its website, www.illcharacters.com. He has been working diligently at expanding the film’s reputation, despite his self-described handicap of being “an independent with no agent and no money.” In any case, he said, he intends to continue making films. Currently, he is fashioning a script about “a group of friends struggling...
...fact, was mentioned by Fisher as among his “primary influences” in creating Conversation For a Dollar. “Versatility of content and expression,” he said, “is an essential element of this musical form” and of the film. And, truly, the chance to explore the film’s diversity of tones and attitudes constitutes a sizable portion of its appeal. The material in Conversation For a Dollar is delivered in such a palatable and speedy style that it’s difficult...