Michael Kowalski

Director of: "Donald and Dot Clock"
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A story about two social misfits who meet, fall in love, marry and die. He is a failed, but hopeful dancer who can’t keep a job. She is a psychic hot-line counselor who is obsessed with the “Rodent Harmonic Balance”.

From the Director:

"The challenge in making ‘Donald and Dot Clock Found Dead in their Home” was to create a bizarre dark romantic comedy full of laughs, cringes and frights while still engrossing our audience in a strange and unglamorous, yet highly endearing love story."

"The film is about love’s emotional roller coaster - it’s ups and downs, it’s whiplash turns- taken to an absurd extreme. In order to achieve this “quasi-schizophrenic” narrative style we realized early on that we needed to approach the film without preconceived rules. Instead we decided to juxtapose different genres - the musical, the music video, the thriller, the love story,the romantic comedy - continuously throughout the film. Unusual locations and low and slanted camera angles add a feeling of strangeness to what we see."

"Finally, as the director and sound designer on the film I designed a story in which sound plays a major expressive role. The sound design is a playful interweaving of atmospheric sounds, layered sound effects, and eclectic and at times counterpunctual music. The effect of which is to lend believability to Donald and Dot’s world while constantly shifting the audience emotional response to the film."