Filmmaker Videos
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Cary Fukunaga Explores Relationships and Landscapes in Kenya
Filmmaker Cary Fukunaga recently traveled to Kenya to shoot what is described as “a trailer with no feature attached” for the fashion brand, Maiyet. Nowness has run an excerpt, and describes the project here. Against the arresting backdrop of the East African bush, Haley Bennett portrays a young woman at a crossroads in life in this daring film by the critically acclaimed director Cary Fukunaga, commissioned by the distinguished fashion brand Maiyet. “We showed up in Africa with a one-line idea of what we were trying to do,” says the young auteur, whose cast and crew spent three days in […]
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Critic David Ehrlich’s Top 25 Movies of 2012
Here’s a great top 25 films of 2012 and a really great video to showcase them all. I’m happy to say that David Ehrlich and I agree on our favorite (nay, the flat out best) movie of the year, but I won’t tip my hand to say what it is as you should really watch this video in its entirety. (And congrats to Girl Walk // All Day, the first film Filmmaker/IFP programmed at the reRun Theater, which is number 10 on this list.)
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Trailer Watch: Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color
The follow-up to his Sundance Grand Prize-winning cult classic, Primer, Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color is one of the most-anticipated films of Sundance 2013. Here’s the just-released teaser trailer.
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Trailer Watch: Matt Porterfield’s I Used to Be Darker
201o “25 New Faces” pick Matt Porterfield, the writer/director of Putty Hill, will premiere his third feature, I Used to Be Darker, at Sundance in about six weeks, and the trailer for the movie just dropped. The synopsis from the SFF press release describes it as follows: “A runaway seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore, only to find their marriage ending and her cousin in crisis. In the days that follow, the family struggles to let go while searching for things to sustain them.”
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The Shameless Satire of Lana Del Rey
“The cleverest piece of cultural criticism” to appear in 2012 is from none other than media-made pop singer Lana Del Rey, argues n+1‘s Christopher Glazek in the year-end edition of Artforum. Indeed, Rey’s two recent videos, which have an outsized, ’80s ambition to them, are fascinating jaw-droppers. Here, Glazek gets at why: Men hardly ever speak in Del Rey’s videos. Their silence also permeates Ride. This more recent video follows the life of a streetwalking saloon singer in Big Sky Country who spends her days and nights among the motorcycle-gang members she picks up and services on the road. Although […]
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Trailer Watch: Lena Dunham’s Girls (Season 2)
The first season of Lena Dunham’s Girls had its sneak preview at SXSW in March this year, but the show was such a success that it’s going to be already in early January 2013 that season two kicks off. The newly released first trailer for the new season is below, and I for one am excited to see what Filmmaker‘s ridiculously successful former intern will be offering up in the new year.
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Larry Clark is a Vegan
Here’s Larry Clark on Nowness talking about his career, his new film Marfa Girl, crooks in the movie business, the MPAA and becoming a vegan. “Life begins at 69,” says the 69-year-old Clark. “And I’m not talking about the sex act.”
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Memories of Mexico
Filmmaker Iva Radivojevic keeps a wonderful Tumblr where she posts short films derived from her world travels and couples them with broader musings on cinema, art and politics. Last year, Radivojevic made fantastic documentary shorts shot during the Occupy Wall Street protests. Now, just uploaded, is a very different kind of short that uses cut-out animation to both isolate the sounds and sights of a small Mexican town as well as function as a kind of representation of memory. Here’s how she introduces it: In April I took a little trip down the Mexico. I purposely left the camera at […]
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Jamie Stuart’s Short on Hurricane Sandy
Jamie Stuart has been Filmmaker‘s videographer for years, but became known to a broader audience in late 2010 when he captured snowbound New York in his short film Idiot with a Tripod. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Stuart was out again filming the impact of extreme weather on the city, and has now released the short film Eternal Storm, to which he adds the following notes: I don’t know if it’s right to create art out of this experience, yet. I don’t know what the time limit is. But I have created something that I hope people can appreciate. And art always […]
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Girl Walk // All Day Director Jacob Krupnick’s Short Film Collaboration with Beastie Boy Ad-Rock
Jacob Krupnick, the director of Girl Walk // All Day — the first film to play at Brooklyn’s reRun Theatre under its new programming partnership with IFP and Filmmaker magazine — is not only wowing audiences with his infectious, joyful dance movie, but is also showing his serious side with a short film made for the New York Times, a collaboration with photographer Pieter Hugo and composer Adam Horovitz, aka The Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock. In an email announcing the film, Krupnick wrote: For much of the last month, I’ve been working on a project about a sliver of the American […]
