Director Jeff Rutherford on His Feature Debut, Locarno Player ’A Perfect Day for Cairbou’

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Locarno Film Festival, the film portraits an extended encounter between Herman (Jeb Berrier) and his son, Nate (Charlie Plummer).

They grapple with their relationship against a vast landscape as they spend the day meandering across great meadows, trudging through a graveyard – navigating the intimate geographies of their own grief.

Sharing the process of crafting the story, Rutherford comments: “I had this impulse about this father and son being in the middle of nowhere and it taking place in one day.”The black and white film, written with Rutherford’s frequent collaborators, Plummer and Berrier, in mind, is textured with dream-like nostalgia.

Alfonso Herrera Salcedo, the cinematographer, frees the characters to wander across the screen, sometimes following them slowly in tracking shots as they get devoured by their surroundings.