Ordinary Time is a forthcoming feature film by Anders Zanichkowsky, currently raising funds for production and promotion.

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About the Film

Ordinary Time will be my second feature film and a memorial for my first love who later died of a drug addiction. The film will use footage taken on a long walk through my hometown accompanied by my 2023 audio piece for G that layers together cell phone recordings I made addressing him in death as a way to mourn.

At turns heartrending and contemplative, self-deprecating with humor and raw with regrets, Ordinary Time is a complexly woven, non-linear narrative circling around (and around, and around) the film’s themes: Romance and youth; the magic of cinema; the mystery of artmaking; and the perils of addiction, family rejection, and even grief itself. Accompanied by dreamy, minimal, and abstracted footage, the film will offer a place for the viewer’s gaze to soften and their mind to wander as they listen to a sprawling, vulnerable, and ultimately one-sided conversation with a lost love.

Recorded and filmed entirely on my cell phone, Ordinary Time shows grief stripped down to the very real, first-person experience of going about daily life amidst the compounding losses of untimely queer death, the opioid crisis, and the gun violence epidemic.

Funding Update (3/21)

$50 / $2,500 Raised
Donations: 1

All donors will be thanked in the credits.

Project Budget

$70 — Adobe Premiere Subscription (2 months)

$130 — Gas/Tolls/Per Diem for Shooting (Roundtrip Chicago to Madison x 2)

$300 — Entrance/Application Fees for Film Festivals

$2,000 — Production & Editing (Estimated 50 hours @ $40/hour)

$2,500 — TOTAL

Past Films & Audio Piece

for G — Click here for documentation of the earlier iteration of this work and an excerpt of the audio piece.

2019 — I Am Conducting Innocent Passage In The Territorial Sea (Feature)
Temkin Award for an MFA Exhibition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

2018 — and you in the woods and you (two-channel video installation)
Selected for “Re-Writing The Master Narrative” at Art & Literature Laboratory

2017 — Time Machine (short)
Selected for The Wisconsin Film Festival and Mills Folly Microcinema