This movie was an official selection to the Sundance Film Festival and South By Southwest, and this weekend you can see it for yourself. “Sasquatch Sunset” stars only four actors that are unrecognizable due to their makeup which turns them into big foots. One of the four actors is Metro Detroit native Christophe Zajac-Denek who appeared on “Live in The D” to talk about the experience.
While the movie has no dialogue or any language, “There’s plenty of posturing and communication that’s among the sasquatch,” he said. The movie also focuses on the curiosity for the sasquatch and what they’re doing in the wild.
The makeup in the movie makes all the actors unrecognizable, and it took two hours a day to put on, according to Zajac-Denek. “An hour every night, and then a half hour in the shower to get off all the blue balls that remain,” he said when referring to the glue that held prosthetics.
He also has other projects that he is apart of, one being “Standing on Water.”’ “It’s a film about my life, and surfing and dwarfism. It’s a 10 minute documentary,” he said. It’s part of a film series which highlights, “People who do things, who I say that don’t look like they should be doing those things,” he said.
He is also a musician and a part of a music video called ‘Dawn’ for Ability in Progress. The video is about four minute long and showcases people with different disabilities, but the video does not reveal those disabilities until the very end. “We really want to change the representation for people with disability, my main focus is people with dwarfism,” he said.
To see the entire interview, watch the video above.