The Alderson Murder, a short film.
The Alderson Murder is an adaptation of a darkly comedic short story from Winnipeg author Gonzalo Riedel’s anthology, Behaving This Way is All I Have Left (Insomniac Press).
Check it out on IMDB or watch it below.
Set against the struggle for women’s liberation in the the 1960s, the film is the story of Elsie Alderson’s desperate (and deluded) attempt to rid herself of James Ivy Alderson IV who cares about one thing only: securing an heir to his real estate fortune. But one Alderson in Elsie’s life is too many. Ultimately, her inept crime falls apart due to her lover’s incompetence and her husband’s stubborn will to live.
After years of researching and writing about film adaptation, I undertook writing, directing and producing this film as an exercise in blending theory and praxis as well as an experiment in whether I could, having never set foot on a film set, direct a film. In the process, I applied what I knew (in theory) about the impossibility of fidelity in adapting fiction into film and I learned that I could never go back to only writing about film. The Alderson Murder was the first of (goddess willing) many more stories I hope to bring to the screen.
-Jennesia
