We used our adobe house and stucco garage for multiple shoots.
True colors at sunset during wildfires.
Colorado Sunset
Colorado Sunset Colored Clouds
Sweeping White Clouds in Colorado Blue Sky
The wildfires make the sky crazy and Bill Busetti helps them along.
It’s not hard to see how this images can create a feeling to accompany the movie screenplay.
Colorado Sunset
Colorado Sunset
A couple of clouds.
Upper Beaver Creek Colorado
Colorado Cloud
Beaver Creek Colorado Wilderness Area
Shooting at Monarch Mountain around 12,000 feet.
Short term memory, where are you?
Early morning cloud coverage over stream.
Crested Butte, Colorado
Three clouds in blue sky.
Photo by Bill Bushetti
Using Mark Tachna’s studio and green screen gave me the opportunity to add additional scenes.
Green Aspen
Colorado Autumn Aspen
No big deal going across. Cameras float, right?
Crested Butte shoot, pleasant landscape.
Crested Butte, Colorado
No place special, but unusual.
“You want a close up?”
Crested Butte, Colorado
It’s pretty easy to get stoked filming in the Colorado mountains in autumn. Dennis and his wife, Vickie, filmed and took off on a motorcycle trip to New Mexico.
Rasta the dog scopes out the next shoot.
Autumn trees next to stream.
Phantom Canyon Road. Would you believe these are Indian pictographs?
Res ipsi loquitur
A shoot near Cotopaxi, Colorado.
Aspens and Columbine in Colorado
One of many you-got-to-see-it-to-believe-it Colorado sunsets. Sunrises are also cool, but start too early.
Faust Scene of Act 5, part 2 describing the Anchorites, a type of hermit living in mountain crevasses.
One of my favorite memories: filming at the base of the “Fourteeners” (14,000 feet tall) in Westcliffe, Colorado after the first snowfall.
Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO
Not much room for a teleprompter.
There is still an element of the Wild West.
This was the scene for Faust’s entry “aria.” We shot it at sunrise to capture the feeling of Easter morning, whose bells saved Faust from suicide.
I came to Colorado thinking I wanted to be a cowboy. Pretty quickly I decided I wanted to be an Indian.
Upstream
Try and find a speed limit sign without bullet holes in rural Fremont County
Dennis Cordova and Nathan Halpin at a shoot at Adobeland. The movie wouldn’t have happened without Dennis. Nathan was a two time Colorado State wrestling champion and became a member of the Special Forces. He enjoyed hanging off rocks and anything dangerous during our shoots.
It’s like trying to shoot the star out of the target at the County Fair.
Rainbows are an important symbol in Faust.
Welcome to unincorporated Penrose.
A beautiful creek. Easily accessible.
Ed Tezac gave us a helicopter lift into the Beaver Creek Wilderness Area, which is as rugged a country as any. We filmed a number of scenes here. Faust describing his newly discovered oneness with nature because of his love for Gretchen, this resonated for me.
Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO
Wouldn’t you just love one of these granite chunks in your yard?
A fall shoot of Mephisto being hoodwinked on the Arkansas River in Florence, Colorado.
Abe the wolf at Mission Wolf, Westcliffe Colorado.
Aspens and Columbines in Colorado
Colorado sunset retouched by Bill Busetti.
Goethe's Faust
A Colorado Documentary
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Faust, Eine Tragodie in Zwei Teilen, Ein Dokumentarfilm aus Colorado
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