Writer/director Mike Cahill returned to Sundance this year (following the success of award-winning “Another Earth” there) with the ambitious “I Origins,” a film about a scientist who tries to chart the evolution of the human eye to disprove its importance in the spiritual world. Our eyes make us unique and so many religions have used the eye as proof of the divine creator. What if someone could disprove that? The great Michael Pitt, who just finished a fantastic stint on NBC’s “Hannibal,” stars as Ian Grey, the doctor who sets out on a scientific path and finds himself on a spiritual one. Cahill’s “Another Earth” star Britt Marling plays Grey’s partner in the lab and Astrid Berges-Frisbey plays the model with the unforgettable eyes that change his life.
Cahill and Pitt sat down in Chicago last week to discuss the project, and one can instantly sense the collaborative approach the two have to filmmaking. When actors and directors are paired for interviews, it often leads to a disconnect as the two fields inherently come at the process from different angles. There was no disconnect with Cahill and Pitt. They’re clearly friends and collaborators with a …read more
