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Filmmaker wants to ‘make Aberdeen look really cool,’

By Matthew N. Wells, The Daily World
Published: May 24, 2023, 11:28am

ABERDEEN — Mia Moore Marchant wants to make Aberdeen and Hoquiam stand out when she shoots her first feature film, “Again Again”.

The sci-fi romance picture starts shooting in late June and it’s slated to shoot for 18 days through July. Marchant is writing, co-directing, producing and starring in the film. Alexa Feeney is her co-director.

The project, with the estimated number of cast and crew between 10 and 12 people, will take place in a trailer, as well as throughout parts of downtown Aberdeen and Hoquiam, according to Marchant. She grew up in both Aberdeen and Hoquiam and is a graduate of Hoquiam High School. She also graduated from Grays Harbor College with her associate’s degree. She now lives in Los Angeles.

“I think what I really want to get at with this film is just to have like, just to make Aberdeen look really cool, you know?” Marchant said. “I feel like this place is so like rustic and kind of like untouched by the outside world in a lot of ways.”

Marchant listed a few places she has in mind for the film. She was in town to scout locations.

“We’re gonna shoot like Boomtown Records, probably a church in town, Gargoyle Tattoo, and the waterfront, and make this look like the coolest place ever, you know?” Marchant said. “And obviously in the trailer. The movie mostly takes place inside a motorhome, so that’ll be kind of a fun shoot, I think.”

The trailer is 35-feet long by about 7-feet wide, but it felt smaller than that when Marchant spoke about the film from inside the trailer on May 16. That’s where some of the tension lies in the film. Marchant said it’s sort of like “Groundhog Day” with Bill Murray.

That movie sends Murray’s character into a time loop and he relives each day. Marchant explained what makes her film unique.

“It’s about this woman who spends 10 years living the same day over and over and over again, inside a motorhome,” Marchant said. “And so she’s stuck there with one other person. They’re like partners. For one of them they’ve been together and they’ve been in a relationship for 10 years, and for the other one it’s like they just started dating five days ago. So for her, it’s like a complete like honeymoon period and for the other woman, she’s like completely, I don’t know, it’s like a long-term relationship.”

The lead characters — aged in their late-20s — are “Agatha” — or “Aggie” — and “Tessa.” Marchant will play Aggie. As of May 16, she did not know who would play her other lead. Abigail Thorn, who has the YouTube channel Philosophy Tube, will play another character in the movie. Thorn had 1.38 million subscribers, as of Tuesday, May 23.

“Aggie is the one who just spent 10 years reliving the same day and now she’s out of it,” Marchant explained. “That’s the first scene. She wakes up the next day and suddenly she’s back in the real world again.”

Marchant explained how the two women have been best friends since childhood and how they decided to run away, “throw away their entire lives to be together and to drive off into the sunset.”

The glitch is the time loop.

“No matter how much you love somebody, if they can’t evolve and if they can’t change as a person for 10 years, that’s really going to weigh you down,” Marchant said. “There’s only so many things you can talk about with somebody when you’ve known them for 10 years, plus (another) 15.”

Part of the film shows Tessa starting to learn a song. She only knows how to play about 10 seconds of the new song, and she plays that part every day. The repetitiveness is one of the irritations Aggie experiences.

“There’s only so much you can sort of stand,” Marchant said.

While Agatha loves Tessa and knows Tessa can’t help how she is, the time loop tests their love. While it’s just an example of the stress they face, they run into other tests throughout the film.

Watch the film’s concept trailer on the film’s Twitter page:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/again-again-a-time-loop-feature-film#/

Marchant wants to make this as much a community product as possible. The movie needs extras and Marchant said experience is not required. She said if people want to be on a scene, on set as a crew member, go get coffee for the principle crew, they’re welcome.

“All help is very appreciated,” Marchant said.

Marchant wanted to thank Wil Russoul, director of Downtown Aberdeen Association for his assistance.

“Wil Russoul has been a huge help to us, like, getting ahold of different venues and locations for us to shoot the film,” Marchant said.

She also wants to thank her parents.

“They’ve been just so, something to aspire to,” Marchant said.

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