Wisconsin Death Trip

Do you have a general approach, as a filmmaker, when you start with books Wisconsin Death Trip, for example. 

You can t play with structure until you ve really got a grip on the story that you re telling. That s true with a narrative film as well. I think some of it came, for me, from making Wisconsin Death Trip. What I d liked in the book [is that] it had no given structure—it was completely formless and chaotic But a film has to have some kind of structure, even if the structure is terrible—and there are films that have terrible structures and usually they re terrible films. That was such a struggle to make that film work, if it works, to flow and to feel like an experience that you could watch and lose yourself in. It was that film, by its very formlessness, that made me really conscious of structure and how important it was to good filmmaking. 

Wisconsin Death Trip Produced by Maureen A. Ryan and James Marsh directed and written by James Marsh edited hy Jinx Godfrey adapted from the hook Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy. 

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