Authors — Filmmaker Staff
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Cold in July | Director Jim Mickle
Attention, our audience’s and our own — it’s a valued commodity these days. We struggle to command our audience’s attention, for them to discover our work and then, once they’ve discovered it, to actually focus on it. Meanwhile, we struggle to focus our own attention, to fight our society’s weapons of mass distraction so we can not just see our work to completion but fully discover the meanings within it. What role does attention play in your work? Can you discuss an instance where you thought about some aspect of attention when it came to your film? I remember hearing […]
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Dear White People | Director Justin Simien
Attention, our audience’s and our own — it’s a valued commodity these days. We struggle to command our audience’s attention, for them to discover our work and then, once they’ve discovered it, to actually focus on it. Meanwhile, we struggle to focus our own attention, to fight our society’s weapons of mass distraction so we can not just see our work to completion but fully discover the meanings within it. What role does attention play in your work? Can you discuss an instance where you thought about some aspect of attention when it came to your film? In 2011 I […]
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The Case Against 8 | Directors Benjamin Cotner and Ryan White
Attention, our audience’s and our own — it’s a valued commodity these days. We struggle to command our audience’s attention, for them to discover our work and then, once they’ve discovered it, to actually focus on it. Meanwhile, we struggle to focus our own attention, to fight our society’s weapons of mass distraction so we can not just see our work to completion but fully discover the meanings within it. What role does attention play in your work? Can you discuss an instance where you thought about some aspect of attention when it came to your film? Keeping our audience’s […]
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Load & Play
Blue Caprice Sundance Selects – January 14 The title character in Alexandre Moors’ stunning debut Blue Caprice was, like so many of that make and model, a police car. That is until it was retrofitted for terror by John Allen Muhammad, who drilled a hole in the trunk from which the 17-year-old John Lee Malvo, at the ex-U.S. Army marksman Muhammad’s urging, shot 10 people to death during the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks. Brought to terrifying life by the remarkable Isaiah Washington as Muhammad and Tequan Richmond (TV’s Everybody Hates Chris) as Malvo, Caprice’s menacing, built-for-maximum-glide vibe, all stark blues, […]
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Super 8
1. WarpFilms10 The cinematic arm of ubercool British record label Warp has hit its first decade and is celebrating by issuing a 200-page coffee table book containing some of its greatest movies. The DVDs tucked inside include no less than three by Shane Meadows (Dead Man’s Shoes was the first ever Warp Films title), plus other excellent and diverse works such as Chris Morris’ Four Lions, Richard Ayoade’s Submarine, Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur, Ben Wheatley’s Kill List and Justin Kurzel’s The Snowtown Murders. 2. Milq The brainchild of Hear Music founder Don MacKinnon, Spectacle: Elvis Costello with… creator Jordan Jacobs, and Tomi Poutanen […]
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52 Tuesdays | Director Sophie Hyde
Attention, our audience’s and our own — it’s a valued commodity these days. We struggle to command our audience’s attention, for them to discover our work and then, once they’ve discovered it, to actually focus on it. Meanwhile, we struggle to focus our own attention, to fight our society’s weapons of mass distraction so we can not just see our work to completion but fully discover the meanings within it. What role does attention play in your work? Can you discuss an instance where you thought about some aspect of attention when it came to your film? Attention to and […]
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Camp X-Ray | Director Peter Sattler
Attention, our audience’s and our own — it’s a valued commodity these days. We struggle to command our audience’s attention, for them to discover our work and then, once they’ve discovered it, to actually focus on it. Meanwhile, we struggle to focus our own attention, to fight our society’s weapons of mass distraction so we can not just see our work to completion but fully discover the meanings within it. What role does attention play in your work? Can you discuss an instance where you thought about some aspect of attention when it came to your film? Strangely, the first […]
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Appropriate Behavior | Director Desiree Akhavan
Attention, our audience’s and our own — it’s a valued commodity these days. We struggle to command our audience’s attention, for them to discover our work and then, once they’ve discovered it, to actually focus on it. Meanwhile, we struggle to focus our own attention, to fight our society’s weapons of mass distraction so we can not just see our work to completion but fully discover the meanings within it. What role does attention play in your work? Can you discuss an instance where you thought about some aspect of attention when it came to your film? My editor and […]
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The Skeleton Twins | Director Craig Johnson
Attention, our audience’s and our own — it’s a valued commodity these days. We struggle to command our audience’s attention, for them to discover our work and then, once they’ve discovered it, to actually focus on it. Meanwhile, we struggle to focus our own attention, to fight our society’s weapons of mass distraction so we can not just see our work to completion but fully discover the meanings within it. What role does attention play in your work? Can you discuss an instance where you thought about some aspect of attention when it came to your film? I have never […]
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Drunktown’s Finest | Director Sydney Freeland
Attention, our audience’s and our own — it’s a valued commodity these days. We struggle to command our audience’s attention, for them to discover our work and then, once they’ve discovered it, to actually focus on it. Meanwhile, we struggle to focus our own attention, to fight our society’s weapons of mass distraction so we can not just see our work to completion but fully discover the meanings within it. What role does attention play in your work? Can you discuss an instance where you thought about some aspect of attention when it came to your film? For me, attention […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 17, 2014
