St. Petersburg independent auteur Chris Fuller continues to gain attention for his debut film, Loren Cass, that is currently playing in New York City, and soon spreading out to Los Angeles, Seattle and Cleveland. Fuller says a run in St. Pete -- likely Beach Theatre and possibly Baywalk 20 -- should be locked in within the next few days.

Fuller is also the subject of an interview with David Lowery of FilmmakerMagazine.com, shedding a litle light on his movie, process and attitude.

Lowery begins: "There’s something to be said about not being eager to please. Chris Fuller’s Loren Cass is an aggressively confrontational debut, all the more so because it is so resolutely restrained in its approach. So seemingly oblique is Fuller’s approach that one feasibly could make it through the entire film and not realize that its subject matter is the aftermath of the 1996 St. Petersburg riots; but on the other hand, that subject matter is so deeply ingrained in the film’s form that it doesn’t matter.

"Loren Cass doesn’t so much deal with its themes as it ingests them, and then - through the juxtaposition of gorgeously photographed tableaux, depicting the various intersections of wayward youths in a shellshocked city; and through the use of poetry and political speeches on the soundtrack; and through stock footage depicting myriad public woes – it recapitulates them."

Good reading, and perhaps necessary before tackling Loren Cass as a viewer. Check it out.