In God We Trust
A surgeon struggling with faith after the loss of a patient must find a way to cope when his own wife goes under the knife.
Written, directed, shot and chopped by Shawn Montgomery.
Starring: Mike Mertes, Ryan Montgomery, Trista Montgomery, Pamela Montgomery, and Lindsay Fisherman
TRT: 6 min. 13 secs.
Camera: Bolex 16mm
Format: 16mm B&W Reversal Film
Sound: Silent
Facts: Shot over a few days in rural Illinois, including Sage Products Inc. of Cary. Halfway through production, while changing rolls of film for the next shot, Shawn realized that the entire roll they had just shot got jammed and was deemed useless. They had to reshoot the scenes that following weekend. Strangely, the woman who dies on the operating table is Shawn's mother, whom died of heart failure just two years after filming.
