The One
2001
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Actor: Coven. Mark Borchardt was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He started making films at the age of fourteen with a super-8 camera that he bought from a garage sale for $40. After serving three years in the military he continued his cinematic endeavors at the local university.
Chris Smith's 1999 film followed low-budget filmmaker Mark Borchardt for a year of travails that somehow emerged as comedic. But did the laughs came from sympathy, exploitation or a complex collaboration between director and subject?
Jan 18, 2024 · Mark Borchardt, lank-haired, divorced and on the cusp of 30, watches from his mother’s couch, exhausted but somehow rapt and not depleted. He’s the only one in the film dreaming the big dream:...
Oct 14, 2022 · American Movie argues that its subject has a raw but very real gift for crafting memorable images and striking compositions but his real gift is being Mark Borchardt. In that, he is a goddamn intuitive genius, a natural.
Feb 25, 2014 · Chris Smith’s 1999 documentary American Movie opens with the words, “I was a failure,” delivered via voiceover by aspiring filmmaker Mark Borchardt, as he drives across a long, grey expanse of Milwaukee’s Northwest side. Borchardt continues, in a voice quivering with emotion, world-weariness, and stubborn dedication:
Mark Borchardt (born August 20, 1966) is an American independent filmmaker. He is best known as the subject of the 1999 film American Movie: The Making of Northwestern, which documented two years he spent writing, shooting and editing his horror short, Coven (1997).
American Movie is the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man's quest for the American Dream. Chris Smith. Director.
