Carson Lund captures a chatty style of baseball for ‘Eephus’

Distinguishingly, the implementation of the stadium watch in 2023 around the experience of playing and watching the baseball in the main league. By undermining a jugglass power on how roles flow, the time guard is short of the game.

Now, as the director and the entertainment player Carson Lund indicates, America’s hobby has become just an activity of other transactions – something you can set an appointment to enter and get out of it. I have been forced to sport at once to fit the requirements of our hyperactivity culture.

“I find that he sarcastically,” Lund, 33, told me, and we are sitting at a picnic table in the Elisian Park on the other side of a field with teenagers in the exercise. “In the purest, the way it was 100 years ago, the baseball game is a game that may take five or six hours if it is. It has created its own sense of time, and in theory it can continue forever.”

The desire to photograph the angry quality of the baseball to participate in writing and direct an advantage for the first time, Evos (Now in theaters), an entertaining and fun dramidi was appointed in the nineties around two entertainment teams for adults in the Massachusetts suburb playing a final match before their local field was demolished and turned into a school.

With today’s shift to the night, men play, and they are never able to express their shared sadness over the loss, which gives both humor and blade. Their friendships are bound by baseball and may not extend beyond this field, yet Lund thinks about these relationships that the team drives as original, even if they are weak.

“You are working through your feelings through the language of the game and competitive joking,” says Lund. “The joke in the movie is very regional, and it feels like a New England for me, and it is the place where the sport is part of the culture that the colloquial instilled.”

Lund says he never cares about baseball films. All of them lack the rhythms of the game because, as with the field of the field, “they finally fought the requirements of Hollywood novels.”

“It is often installed on individuals with a type of transformation and the game simply a metaphor,” says Lund. “I wanted to overwhelm you on this one day in one field and create a more group experience with a large group that deals with the same thing, which says goodbye to rituals, bye of a copy of themselves creating it in this field together.”

Lund says his movie is about “Farewell to the rituals.”

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Lund’s approach to a deep American topic included the speed and official options that one may often associate with European artistic films or even Asian “slow cinema”. Lund aims to raise the longing of the master and headquarters of Taiwan Tsai Ming LiangThe 2003 movie “Goodbye, Dragon Inn”, on the last show at a cinematic theater is about to close.

“I was interested in a sweet phrase and bitter, the quality of the funeral that suffers from the Tsai movie,” says Lund. “The films I love most are those that distinguish some degree of distraction or floating attention and allow you to be kind to the air.”

Lund, Cinephile, was thirsty, shining his broad smile on his face, and began watching Stanley Kubrick and Bergman’s staglan films at an early age through his father’s recommendations. He is particularly confident when speaking to the baseball. Lund found the ideal field for “Eephus” in the small city of Douglas, Massachusetts, after visiting more than 100 mm via New England. He says: “I wanted a field that I felt had been deteriorated by time with old wood, broken paint and a sense of history,” he says.

Since the group of his characters, in his words, “Above the Hill” – adult men ranging from rust abroad, in an entertainment league where the risks are as low as possible – Lund can focus on transferring the feeling of society by embracing a little chaos and picking up the event in wide shots.

“I wanted to see the interaction between all these different bodies move and the distance between everyone,” explains. “There are many traits of baseball that are not shared by any other major sport. It is very unique.”

A scene from the movie “Eephus”.

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Lund was born in Boston Red Sox family, and he grew up in Nachoa, New Hambshir, and played in the travel league. He encouraged his father, who has played throughout his life until recently because of the sick knee, Lund and his brother to do this out of love for the game, and it was not like a commitment.

Lund played partially desirable infield because he looked at Nomar Garciaparra, a star of Red Sox in the late nineties and early Ugate.

Although he aspires to major companies, Lund eventually found competitiveness among young people who have very similar ambitions. He says, “I just stopped, which broke my father’s heart.” “I was more interested in exploring creative outlets.” High school job in his local library nourishes the growing Lund appetite for international cinema.

Moving to Suni Los Angeles, where the enthusiasm of the evaders is clear wherever you go, Lund Lund is reaffirmed for this sport. Over the past eight years, he played entertaining in soldiers, a team that is part of Pressbul Pacific Coast League. Some of his colleagues in the soldiers team have long been aware that he was making a basement film, and they all attended the AFI festival for “Eephus” in Hollywood in October.

“There is no competition in this league,” Lund notes. “I found it very comfortable and happy. It is a sport, so you are practicing yourself, but the contemplative traits of baseball are really ever. The characteristics you see in the movie.”

Although his heart belongs to Red Sox, Lund moved to Los Angeles to make movies. “At Dodger Stadium, you can watch the sunset over the mountains,” he says. “It is a beautiful experience.”

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For Lund, filmmaking has always been a group sport. The “Eephus” scenario came out of the collaboration with the childhood friend Michael Basta, which is part of the independent omnes films with Lund and Nate Fisher, who is known for the first time while attending shows at the Harvard movie archive.

The writing began to be over to be at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic with them asking each other what they wanted to see in the baseball game. What are the original models that you will need to be included? This involves creating square points, a visual map of the fictional game that will reveal all over the movie.

“Carson knew the play of the game, Nate knows fun, strange, trivial parts of the baseball, and I had things outside the field.” “It was a funny mixture of different baseball minds.”

Discover the trio first what happened in the half. Once they have this structure, the process necessitated discussing when and how to spend time with each person without giving priority to each other.

“It was about negotiating the process of speed and stagnation,” says Lund. “This is what is about the baseball. These long periods of nothing happen and then explode from the work. I wanted to disturb the signs of nothingness and showed that there is a lot in reality.”

Cliff Blake in the movie “Eephus”.

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In turn, Fischer agreed to participate as long as he can throw himself playing a character based on his favorite player, Zach Grenic, a wonderful jug known to his humor and his distinguished personality. More importantly, Greenk sometimes still throws the old “Eephus” stadium that gives the film to its title.

“We needed a man to sit on the margin and explain the topic of the entire film in three minutes or less,” Fischer says during an interview. “I gave it to myself because it’s really easy to act when you write your own lines. I hope [Greinke] He gets to see this movie. “

As Fisher’s character, Merit – who wears the number 21 as Greenk did when he played with the beloved Fisher team, Arizona Diaondabakz – puts it, Eephus is “a type of curve ball that was so slowly developed that it mixes the mixture … makes it lose the course of time.”

Among the members of the actors team are many members of the legendary Frederick Wizmann team (“Titkot Folies”, “Central Park”) as a radio broadcaster. Initially, Lund intended to play a role on the camera, but the 95-year-old Wisean age-the complexity of his participation. Lund loves to see the veteran narrators made of his famous observation work on the baseball game.

“It wasn’t just that I love his voice,” Lund says about communicating with Weizmann. “I felt that by placing it in the movie, I was telling the audience that this is a more anthropological movie than a traditional narration. It is a kind of sign.”

Red Sox lovers will also be happy late Bill LeeNicknamed “Spaceman”, which is a weird -out piston, which is very famous, also threw Eephus to stop people. “We helped his attached name to secure financing,” says Lund.

Although any of the character of “Eephus” as direct agents of Lund (“If you are in the movie, it will be a short palace,” and he is proud of a likable manner), he found a way to put himself indirectly in the movie. In the middle of the game, a child and his father appear to play but the discovery of the field is busy. It is a brief moment but personally.

“In fact, my father was playing the role of my father and the child wearing my shirt in New Hampshire Gregs from when I was in my travel league,” says Lund with a smile. His father, the proud of the film, was attended at the Cannes Film Festival 2024.

It seems that the baseball game, which is now filtered through film, works with Lund as an unanimous gesture of true love. What could be more expensive than the common time in the field? He bleeds Red Sox, so he will not hold him chanting for the evaders anytime, but La has grown to him though. “At Dodger Stadium, you can watch the sunset over the mountains,” he says. “It is a beautiful experience.”