Patti Podesta: The Art of Production Design Part One

In part one of our discussion with production designer Patti Podesta, Patti questions how Baudrillard's description of artificial vs real influences the way in which falseness portrays on screen. In the Gregg Araki film "Nowhere," Patti dealt with flat graphic motifs that compressed the physical set space. She further illuminates how references in the real world find their way into fantasy and the screen world. The House on the Rock is an architectural reference that Patti used to expose discrete qualities of discontinuity. When approaching the design for American Gods she invoked this notion as symbols of Americana and the supernatural played against and with each other in a visual symphony.