Interview: Mark Jackson (Without)

Mark Jackson’s directorial debut Without, premiered in Park City this year – not at Redford’s biggie event, but Sundance’s competing film festival. It won the Special Jury Award in Slamdance and when Jackson was named among Filmmaker Magazine’s Top 25 New Faces, the minimalist/microscopic budgeted chilly and ambiguous psychological thriller found more international love with showings at international fest stops Locarno, BFI London, Deauville and the Hamptons.

In the viral interview below, I discuss Jackson’s background as a filmmaker (he studied in Italy’s Cinecittà), the extremely busy year he had at all the film festivals, his muse Joslyn Jensen, his collaboration with Dp and producer Jessica Dimmock (check out her photography work) and the support from IFP/Filmmaker Magazine which gave the film a Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nomination.