Photographer Alec Soth on set of PRIMETIME, now playing in theaters nationwide. A note from director Lance Oppenheim on this collaboration: "If you came to the office I shared with cinematographer David Bolen during the pre-production of PRIMETIME, you would see hundreds of Alec Soth images taped to the wall. I bought dozens of copies of his book Niagra and would hand it to my department heads. Beyond being one of my favorite photo books of all time… it was one of the visual touchstones of PRIMETIME. Niagra came out in 2006, the same year our movie takes place, and it's all honeymoon motels, wedding chapels, heart-shaped tubs, and couples who've come to the falls to live out this pre-packaged fantasy of romance. The falls are also a place people go when they're at their most desperate. What I love about Soth is that he never sneers at any of it. He just sits with his subjects inside the world they've built, or been sold, and lets the shabbiness and the longing exist side by side until the artifice starts to feel weirdly sincere. That felt so close to what we were trying to do with Chris and the team: the motel rooms they crash in between stings, the decoy houses dressed up to look like someone's home, these people who've given their whole lives to a reality constructed for an audience. I wanted to borrow that tenderness. Some moments that could be purely sordid become almost dream-like, and then the dream curdles into something lonelier and grittier, a nightmare. Soth showed me you can find something new in a manufactured world without either buying into it or tearing it down."

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