Zen Noir follows a detective investigating a mysterious death at a Buddhist temple. Will his modern crime solving skills be up to par with that of these Zen masters? Director Marc Rosenbush was kind enough to give Toxic Shock TV an exclusive interview.
BC: Who inspired you to become a filmmaker?
MARC: I've got a lot of director-heroes: David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, Woody Allen, Francis Coppola, Stephen Soderbergh, Terry Gilliam, Darren Aronofsky, Jean-Pierre Jeunet... I could go on all day.
BC: Tell us about your latest film Zen Noir starring Duane Sharp and Kim Chan. Tell us about your experience writing, directing, and producing it.
MARC: Zen Noir is a strange, dark, funny Buddhist murder mystery. At first it seems to be a parody of hard-boiled film noir detective movies, but eventually it evolves into a dark, surreal exploration of some pretty heavy Buddhist ideas, in particular the question of how we deal with death and the fact that the only constant in the universe is change. That's my pretentious answer. My other answer is: if David Lynch, the Buddha and the Marx Brothers all took acid and made a low-budget movie together, this would be it.
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