Directors: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Photography: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Editors: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Sound: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Music: John Benskin
Narrator: Keith Fulton
With: Terry Gilliam, Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Madeleine Stowe
Producers: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Executive Producer: Alan Glazer
Production: Low Key Productions, in association with Atlas Entertainment and Poo Poo Pictures
Distribution: MCA/Universal
First Broadcast: 15.3.1997, BBC2
Filmography Keith Fulton: John the Barber, 1993; Ben Franklin(s): A Historical Fiction, 1995.
Filmography Louis Pepe: Roadside Eulogy, 1991; Confession; Jean Meets the Beatles.
When coming to Philadelphia to shott "12 Monkeys", director Terry Gilliam hires two graduate film students to document the making of "a European art film in the Hollywood system", not least as a personal insurance against the studio bureaucracy since the notorious conflict over "Brazil" a decade earlier. With vérité footage shot throughout the entire production of "12 Monkeys" - from Gilliam's efforts to undercut the celebrity status of his lead actors to his reluctant encounters with the market testing process - the film traces how ideas are realized, compromises and eventually funneled through the industry's marketing machine into salable commodities. An intimate portrait of Gilliam's detail-obsessed and perfectionnist filmmaking. A non-glamour "making of" on the lines of Eleanor Coppola's "Heart of Drakness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse".