Adam Rifkin's "LOOK" Premiering 10-10-10 on Showtime

[JamesG]

Adam Rifkin’s television series "LOOK" will be premiering on 10-10-10 on Showtime, airing after "Dexter" at 12:00am.

Rifkin, who is most known for directing the 1999 cult-classic comedy Detroit Rock City, will set the series as a continuation to his 2007 film of the same name, picking up right after where the movie left off.









On a recent video interview he explained what "LOOK" is all about:


“I made a movie called 'LOOK' first, which explores the conceit that the average American is captured on surveillance camera approx. , at the time I made the movie, 200x a day. It has now grown to a much higher number.



The movie followed several interweaving stories but it was shot entirely on surveillance cameras. The same holds true for 'LOOK' the series; it follows six interweaving stories, as opposed to four from the movie.

Also like the movie, the show is shot entirely on surveillance cameras but also on webcams, cell phone cams, flip cams… all of the cameras that make up our camera-centric world which we live in now.











'LOOK' is a show about the things that people do when they don’t know that they are being watched.

Make no mistake, we are all being watched, all of us - everywhere we go and everything we do.


Not only are there surveillance cameras it’s when you go to the ATM machine, when you go to the bank, to the market, to the gym, when you’re walking down the street…

The webcam in your house is accessible with the right software, everyone’s cell phone camera, everyone’s flip camera… there are cameras absolutely everywhere. So everything we do is being captured.





I don’t say with the show if that’s all good or if that’s all bad.

I didn’t want to make a statement saying that the ubiquity of these cameras is creating a Big Brother-esque - Orwellian nightmare, and that this should all be stopped.

I’m not saying that having these cameras means that it’s safer to walk down the street, so therefore there should be cameras on every corner no matter what…




I’m just presenting the fact that everything you do is being filmed.

I’m imagining that if I’d had access to all of the footage being captured across an entire city , what would be some of the interesting stories that I can cut together from all of the footage which is what 'LOOK' is about.











We shot the entire 11 episode season in a very short amount of time. The way we were able to shoot for the time and budget that we had available was that I wrote all of the episodes first. I just had this tome of all of the written episodes which we just scheduled as if it were a gigantic movie.

I did this instead of going to the mini-mart 11 times for 11 different episodes. That’s how you would usually shoot for television - you write an episode and you shoot, write another and shoot, and write another…


So since we shot like a movie we shot all of the mini-mart for all of the 11 episodes in 3 nights - things like that. That’s how we were able to do a lot in an economical amount of time.









I hope that the audience is entertained by the show, above everything else. I want them to think that it’s funny, scary, and dramatic. I want them all to get sucked into all the drama.

Beyond that I just want them all to pay attention to the fact that there is a camera above them all of the time. We just happen to live in a world now that has very little privacy."


Full video interview here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nebOJBnULys