I Used to Live There | |
Director: | Ryan McKenna |
Producer: | Ryan McKenna |
Starring: | Daniel Gerson Monika Schneider |
Cinematography: | Clark Ferguson |
Editing: | Ryan McKenna |
Distributor: | La Distributrice de Films |
Runtime: | 14 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | English |
I Used to Live There is a 2023 Canadian short drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Ryan McKenna. Blending documentary-style filmmaking with fictional elements, the film stars Daniel Gerson and Monika Schneider as semi-fictionalized versions of themselves, and focuses on the relationship between a photographer who is losing his vision due to a degenerative eye disease and the actress who hired him to take her new headshots.[1]
The film premiered at the 76th Locarno Film Festival in August 2023,[2] and had its Canadian premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.[3] The film was named to TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list for 2023.[4]
McKenna previously made another short film about Gerson's struggle with his deteriorating vision, Gerson Workout (2020), for the Greetings from Isolation project.[5]