{"id":43610,"date":"2020-08-27T16:43:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T16:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucm.one\/?page_id=43610"},"modified":"2023-08-04T22:27:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T22:27:05","slug":"the-fare","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ucm.one\/en\/the-fare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fare (2018) by D.C. Hamilton | Artkeim\u00b2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Fare<\/h1>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]”The Fare<\/strong>” by D.H. Hamilton<\/strong> tells the story of a taxi driver and his passenger, as they try to escape a mysterious and endless night-time cab ride where each turn of the meter resets their trip to the beginning.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1561290391124{border-right-width: -15px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”43656″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”43654″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/h3>\n

The world-weary Harris drives his old-fashioned taxi through a desolate, deserted landscape. Only the voice of his boss, who repeatedly calling him on the radio, keeps him company. When he gets the order to pick up a passenger, the enchanting Penny gets into his taxi. A flirtation begins between the two but ends when she has arrived at her destination and gets out of the car. However, when Harris resets his meter, he is instantaneously transported back to the moment he pulled up to her, and the journey begins all over again.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1561290391124{border-right-width: -15px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”43604″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]Harris and Penny find themselves trapped in a time loop and try to solve this mystery. During the seemingly never-ending journey on a lonely stretch of roads, secrets are revealed, truths come to light and Harris’ life is irrevocably changed.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1596563535341{margin-bottom: -5px !important;}”][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1561290391124{border-right-width: -15px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1596630743700{margin-bottom: 10px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

About director and producer D.C. Hamilton:<\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1596564209848{margin-top: 10px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1561290391124{border-right-width: -15px !important;}”][vc_column_text]D.C. Hamilton<\/strong> has directed over 50 short films and commercials. “The Fare<\/strong>” marks his sophomore feature directorial endeavor. He began his career as showrunner David Zabel<\/strong>\u2019s assistant on the long-running Emmy-winning series “ER<\/strong>“, then graduated to various production and art department roles on shows such as “The West Wing<\/strong>“, “It\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia<\/strong>“, and “Friday Night Lights<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

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He wrote and produced the independent feature film “My Name is Jerry<\/strong>“, starring Doug Jones<\/strong> (“The Shape of Water<\/strong>“, “Hellboy<\/strong>“, “Star Trek Discovery<\/strong>“) and Steven Yeun<\/strong> (“The Walking Dead<\/strong>“). An official selection at the Heartland Film Festival<\/strong>, it garnered numerous accolades including “Best Picture<\/strong>“<\/em> at the Santa Clarita Valley Film Festival<\/strong> and the International Filmmaker Festival<\/strong>, and “Best Comedy<\/em><\/strong>” at the Route 66 Film Festival<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Directors note by H.C Hamilton:<\/h3>\n

“My father, a novelist with a knack for telling the kinds of stories that haunt you long after the lights go off, had it in his head that old Twilight Zone plots made good bedtime stories for his two small children, told lovingly as though they were Mother Goose nursery rhymes. So for me, The Fare began life long before the story or characters existed, deep in the recesses of a traumatized 6-year-old brain as I lay under my covers, waiting for aliens to serve man or a goblin to appear on the wing of my airplane.<\/em><\/p>\n

As film became the all-consuming pursuit that it is, those stories merged into a tapestry of pop-culture and cinema, logged away somewhere between Mr. Miyagi, ruby slippers, and a shark named Bruce.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1561290391124{border-right-width: -15px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”43650″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”43652″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]Luckily, our screenwriter, Brinna Kelly<\/strong>, never stopped considering that other dimension and imagined a beautiful love story which harkened back to that largely lost style of storytelling. She pitched me a romantic mystery with fantastical elements, a looping narrative, whimsy, scares and a taxicab lost on a desolate stretch of road \u2013 told with the same restraint and cleverness that made “The Twilight Zone<\/strong>” so effective. She had a unique perspective on the tale of Harris, a weary cab driver, and his mysterious fare, Penny. It rekindled memories of those bedtime stories and the excitement they evoked. With it came the hope that despite limited resources, we could do something special. My job was simple: don\u2019t screw it up.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1561290391124{border-right-width: -15px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”43594″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]Our vision was to create a film that pays homage to the past, using classical techniques but taking a modern twist. With a mixture of black and white and color, classical film music, rear projection screens, night scenes shot by day and even a taxi from a forgotten era, the film is both a retrospective and a minimalist indie film.<\/em><\/p>\n

The film takes place almost entirely inside a car, so the largest challenge was always going to be finding two actors that could simultaneously carry the unique burden of a film of that style, and also have a rich chemistry that would compel the audience. I could not be prouder of the performances of our two leads. They always found ways, from the big moments to in-between the quiet ones, to make you invest in these people and where this journey is taking both of them.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is my wish that people leave the film moved, surprised, amused, and affected by it in the same way I was as a child listening to those Twilight Zone bedtime stories. In the way that I was when Brinna first pitched me her tale about two lovers trapped inside an endless cab ride. It is my hope that people will take the journey with Harris and come out the other end having experienced something they truly did not expect.”<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1561290391124{border-right-width: -15px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”43608″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”43602″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1596568046288{margin-top: 15px !important;margin-bottom: 25px !important;background-color: #efefef !important;}”]