Complex sentence: Director Benh Zeitlin and his crew worked out of an abandoned gas station in town, and built the film's fictional town--the "Bathtub"--by hand with found artifacts and rusted-out equipment from the surrounding area.
Split into simpler sentences: Director Benh Zeitlin and his crew worked out of an abandoned gas station in town. They built the film's fictional settlement--the "Bathtub"--by hand with found artifacts and rusted-out equipment from the surrounding area.