Almost all of the scenes in Adrian Tofei's movies are first takes. He initially did multiple takes for his first movie, Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (2015), but then realized that the first ones are always the most natural and authentic ones and decided to include only first takes in the final cut.
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Adrian Tofei's filmmaking method usually consists of working for months or even years on an alternative psychological reality for the actors including himself, partially living in character, so that when they start improvising, Adrian mainly needs to record the unfolding events and to make sure the improvisation goes in the right direction. The script mostly consists of plot points. Adrian Tofei shoots tens of hours of footage guerrilla style and then watches the footage like a documentary filmmaker would and creates the details of the story in post-production during the editing process.
