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A Work In Progress
Introduction
“The evolution of A Work in Progress was a real roller coaster,” Wes Ball said about his 2002 B.F.A. Thesis film. “It all began with my previous live-action short, Jacob: The Movie, a pretty ambitious student endeavor that ignored everyone’s concern about ‘scope.’ In the end, it had its flaws and I made my mistakes, but I accomplished a lot and gained some confidence in myself. Still, after the scale of Jacob, I decided I wanted to go back to basics and tell a very simple story as well as I could. Of course,” he added, “because of the way I am, I couldn’t just sit on keeping everything simple. I knew the story needed to be simple, but I wanted to try something new, something challenging, something ...
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