Real Picture -- With 'Open Five,' Filmmaker Kentucker Audley Embeds His Actors Into the City to Create a 'Love Letter to Memphis'

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Nonfans on the Internet Movie Database have described Memphis writer-director Kentucker Audley's "Team Picture" as "a complete waste of time" and "a pointless film starring pointless losers."

The story of an uncertain young man (played by Audley himself) who almost passively resists the pressures of job, family, romance and school, "Team Picture" was a no-budget camcorder slice of Midtown life that earned critical kudos for its deadpan humor and convincing characterizations. But its home-video aesthetic and unnervingly intimate perspective confounded those expecting the familiar pleasures and tidy resolutions of the professionally produced comedy-dramas found at the typical multiplex.

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Real Picture -- With 'Open Five,' Filmmaker Kentucker Audley Embeds His Actors Into the City to Create a 'Love Letter to Memphis'

Even so, Audley, 27, now thinks his 2007 debut feature is too demonstrative, too ingratiating and too scripted. He wants his new movie, "Open Five," which he recently finished shooting, to appear even more naturalistic and unplanned.

On location one day in mid-August at the DeJaVu Creole Soul Food & Vegetarian Restaurant on South Florida with a pair of impressive collaborators, cinematographer Joe Swanberg (the Chicago-based creator of such fi...

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