Pan (2006) | Stream

PAN, 9@Night Film#8

Bobby is a latch-key kid, a lonely 9 year old boy who plays at home as his single mother works to support them. Pan. an ex-convict tries to father a dysfunctional family of street people in an encampment by the railroad tracks. He tries to teach Bobby about life on the streets but violent consequences await those who challenge society's taboos.

• Winner: San Francisco Film Critic's Circle Marlon Riggs Award for courage and innovation in the cinema, 2008.

“If pressed, many cinephiles would admit a magnetic attraction to truly magnum opuses: whether crafted by Tarr, Rohmer, Rivette or Syberberg, the mere existence of such titanic features or multi-film cycles suggests an important artistic event. There’s nothing quite like the exhilaration of discovering a huge project that in cinematic terms reaches for the extra-wide narrative/cinematic embrace of THE BROTHER’S KARAMAZOV, Proust, even INFINITE JEST. But does anyone work with that kind of scope in contemporary American cinema? Meet Rob Nilsson, who with very little self-promotional zeal has spend the last dozen- plus years creating a fascinating collection of exquisitely shot digital features under the umbrella of 9 @ Night… a sprawling black and white tapestry of separate but overlapping feature narratives that encompass a broad character scroll of homeless, hustling and bourgeois types in San Francisco and environs.” – Dennis Harvey, Film Comment, Sept./Oct. Issue, 2008

• Praise from Ray Carney and the Academy Foundation:

https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/9-night-the-films-of-rob-nilsson-2/

• World Premiere: Mill Valley International Film Festival, 2006.

• The World Premiere marathon screening of all the 9 @ Night Films took place at the Harvard Film Archive in 2007.

Directed by:

• Rob Nilsson

Story by:

• Rob Nilsson

Improvised by the Cast:

• Kieron McCartney – Pan

• Kara McCartney – Barbara

• Nighttrain Schickele – Bobby

• Mantra Plonsey – Baby

• Deniz Demirer – Chuck

• Kevin Woodruff – F

• Mira Larkin – Francesca

• Edwin Johnson – Johnny

• Teddy Weiler – Phil

• Lee Etta Coffer-Anderson – Ma Betsy

• Marianne Heath – Jane Jordan

• Brette McCabe – Lou Jordan

• Baba Garaya – Musician at Bar

• M. Walter Sorao – Musician at Bar

• Iris Morioka – Waitress

• Thomas Matzke – Thomas

• Patrick Maguire – Pat

• Paul Greenberg – Paul

• Michael Crotty – Michael

• Melissa Cybele Sparks – Cashier

• Sally Corkum – Bartender

• Howard Teich – Bar Patron

• Springer Teich – Bar Patron

• Lisa Kang – Passer-by

Cinematography:

• Chikara Motomura

Sound Recordists:

• Ken Huie

• Amber Tisue

Set Decoration:

• Lisa Kang

Costume Design:

• Lisa Kang

Special Makeup Effects Artist:

• Mira Larkin

Production Manager:

• Mira Larkin

Assistant Director:

• Adan J. Faudoa

Music by:

• Al Nelson

Editors:

• Michael Edo Keane

• Larry Lange

• Califa Weiss

Associate Producer:

• Michelle Anton Allen

Producers:

• Chikara Motomura

• Rob Nilsson

• Kevin Michael Winterfield

Thanks:

• Michelle Anton Allen

• Denny Dey

• Carol Richards

• David Richards

• Gail Schickele

• Robindira Unsworth

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