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An Interview with Jeffrey Garcia, Director of Bubblegum

by Mike Haberfelner

February 2022

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Your new movie Bubblegum - in a few words, what is it about?

 

Freedom.

 

At least for me, Bubblegum had a very soap operatic feel to it - was that at all intended, and your thoughts about the genre as such, also in relation to your movie?

 

My last film Henrietta and Her Dismal Display of Affection had a more intentional melodrama feel, what with the whole “family in crisis” storyline. With Bubblegum, I had wanted to take a stab at crime films and road comedies. Sort of like Fargo meets Paper Moon, but if the Coen Brothers were beaten over the heads with hammers and became mentally retarded.

 

(Other) sources of inspiration when writing Bubblegum?

 

60’s mondo lounge culture and late night TV.

 

Do talk about Bubblegum's brand of humour for a bit!

 

Absurdist toilet humor.

 

Bubblegum also does have its fair share of gruesome bits - so what can you tell us about those, and how were they achieved?

 

Some of that stuff was real, like the raccoon roadkill, cigarette burns and Daphne taking a piss outside… but the other more gore-y effects were done with corn syrup and food dye.

 

You have chosen a very retro, S.O.V. look for Bubblegum, and to my information even shot it on VHS - so why is that then?

 

I wanted to shoot in a format that didn’t require a lot of strenuous lighting set-ups, or waste hours/weeks/months on color correction. It was to save time and a little bit of sanity. Plus I've always been a big fan of the S.O.V. look, so I figured “why not?”

 

What can you tell us about your overall directorial approach to your story at hand?

 

I think in regards to making these types of movies, my number one rule to myself is to never make it boring. There’s nothing worse than a boring comedy.

 

Do talk about Bubblegum's key cast, and why exactly these people?

 

I shoot primarily with the townies of San Marcos, Texas - my hometown. 99% of them aren’t professional actors, but have participated enough in my projects to establish a comfortable working relationship

 

Two of the actors (Tristan Smith, Steve Silverstein) are friends of mine from Florida… so they flew down here and we shot in a gross, sketchy motel for 12 hours. Good boys.

 

A few words about the shoot as such, and the on-set atmosphere?

 

We ran into a lot of problems on and off set. For starters, there was never a script. I just wrote scenes the day of or night before. That approach has its advantages, but I would suddenly have actors move across states or go to jail… so I would have to quickly write myself out of a corner by changing certain plot points and removing scenes I had already written.

 

Another obstacle was the format itself. It was shot on old, used VHS tapes from the 90s that had a bunch of movies and TV shows recorded on em… so when it came time to convert the footage, a tape would disintegrate inside the VCR… leaving us with no choice but to reshoot everything we did that day.

 

The $64 question of course, where can Bubblegum be seen?

 

I plan on releasing a limited run of VHS tapes for Bubblegum in the near future… so make sure to get your hands on that as soon as it drops! Aside from that, I am looking into offering the film as a digital download, but I have yet to find a good outlet for that… maybe Vimeo?

 

Anything you can tell us about audience and critical reception of Bubblegum yet?

 

We had one screening so far and everyone loved it. Nonstop laughs. We’ll see about critical once it hits the festival circuit.

 

Any future projects you'd like to share?

 

I’m thinking of shooting my 3rd and 4th feature simultaneously, but I need to get my shit together first. Movie making is ruining my life!

 

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Anything else you're dying to mention and I have merely forgotten to ask?

 

Stay classy, keep it sleazy. Cheers.

 

Thanks for the interview!

 

Yeah no problem thank you.

 

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