Matt on Film: The Raft

I spent the week­end before last in Fall River, MA, home of sev­eral Korean War vin­tage U.S. Navy ships, includ­ing the destroyer USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. I was there to shoot a flashback/dream sequence for The Raft, an inde­pen­dent short film directed by Robert Jones.

The movie stars Ed Asner (!) as a grand­fa­ther who tells his grand­son about a par­tic­u­lar inci­dent in WWII. The grand­son then imag­ines the inci­dent as his grand­fa­ther has told it, but with him­self in his grandfather’s role as Cap­tain. New Haven friends and NHTC reg­u­lars Peter Chenot and Chris­t­ian Sha­boo were in the scene with me, and we had more bond­ing expe­ri­ences than we’d ever imagined—or wanted—as we stayed awake for two 6pm–6am work­ing “days”, explored New­port, RI (I’d never been) dur­ing the down­time, and drove home to New Haven at 5am on a Tuesday.

Here are a few more pic­tures (click for larger versions):