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The Blue Velvet Project, #71
Second #3337, 55:37 1. Jeffrey, struggling. Working through over and over again the evil equation that is Frank. 2. The sound of sound has come apart. Everything that matters is between his ears. 3. His ear; the fact of his non-severed ear. 4. The haircut to reveal the ear. 5. An actor, preparing to say his next line, or has he forgotten the presence of the camera? 6. The fullness of night, and its comfort. 7. To be drowned in the blackness of introspection. 8. A terrible thought: is Frank supernatural, beyond human agency, beyond human Law? 9. “Look out […]
by Nicholas Rombes on Jan 25, 2012 -
Five Questions with Shut Up And Play the Hits Directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace
Over LCD Soundsystem’s ten-year career, the band grew from early blog darlings to lauded indie stalwarts. After telegraphing the group’s demise years in advance, band-leader James Murphy officially disbanded LCD last April with a star-studded, marathon-length performance at Madison Square Garden. Now, less than a year later, Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace present Shut Up and Play the Hits, a documentary that follows Murphy and his band-mates in the run-up to and aftermath of their now-legendary final performance. If the film’s trailer is any indication, Shut up and Play the Hits will serve as a great encapsulation of the excitement, […]
by Jane Schoenbrun on Jan 24, 2012 -
“LOVE FREE OR DIE” | director, Macky Alston
[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, January 23 6:00 pm –Temple Theatre, Park City] Last night, I was at a holiday party and I saw my five year old daughter in a silver-sequined dress through the lens of someone else’s video camera. Christmas lights shone in the center of the frame and my daughter glistened to the right of the frame. For a second, as she danced in front of the camera, I saw her as I knew her most truly to be and had never seen her before. It is for such moments of revelation that I am addicted to documentary film. […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 23, 2012 -
“THE ATOMIC STATES OF AMERICA” | directors, Don Argott and Sheena Joyce
[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, January 23, 9:00 pm –Temple Theatre, Park City] In these days of 140 characters or less, filmmaking, and particularly documentary filmmaking, allows us the space and the time to explore a character or an issue with breadth and depth. Our goal with The Atomic States of America was to take the intimidating topic of nuclear power, and to make it accessible and personal by telling the individual stories of people living in reactor communities, working as Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors, and advocating on both sides of the issue. When you begin the journey of making a documentary, […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 23, 2012 -
“CHINA HEIVYWEIGHTS” | director, Yung Chang
[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, January 22, 6:00 pm –Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City] 1. Why are you a filmmaker? Why did you choose this profession? I love movies. Ever since I was a kid and my dad would set up his super-8 projector in the basement and rent black-and-white movies from the library, I have loved movies. Movies are visceral. They are cathartic. They are spiritual. I love the experience of going to watch movies in a dark theatre with a full audience. I love being emotionally moved, to be shaken alive, to feel a sense of the wider world and […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 22, 2012 -
“FINDING NORTH” | directors, Kristi Jacobson & Lori Silverbush
[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, January 22 6:00 pm –Temple Theatre, Park City] Kristi Jacobson: 49 million people in the U.S.—one in four children—don’t know where their next meal is coming from. It’s a shocking statistic, but how do you turn a stat into a story? My answer is deceivingly simple: you make a movie. No art form can truly make us feel another person’s pain, or joy, or hunger. It’s our own emotions and imaginations that bring any art form to life. But film, in my experience, is the most powerful conduit between one person’s experience and an audience. As a […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 22, 2012 -
“SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS” | directors, Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace
[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, January 22 Midnight –Egyptian Theatre, Park City] With this film we were presented with the opportunity to document a very specific moment in time, both musically and culturally—LCD Soundsystem’s final show ever, at Madison Square Garden. The idea of shooting the concert appealed to us as not only fans of the band, but as filmmakers. We love the classic experiential concert films of the past, such as The Last Waltz, and Stop Making Sense, and for us, the idea of documenting an event like that was something we had a very specific vision for. But we were also […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 22, 2012 -
A YEAR WITHOUT RENT IN PARK CITY
While on the plane to Salt Lake City, it occurred to me that it might be fun to do Park City coverage as a live blog from the perspective of someone who’s never been there before. I have a press pass for Slamdance, so I’m mostly covering that. 21 January; 2:36pm Another screening. February (Nick Singer): A short about a guy with some plumbing problems. It’s well-shot, but you really get the sense that it’s more an exercise in cinematography than anything resembling a story. The Sound of Small Things (Peter McLarnan): A film about a marriage in decline, McLarnan’s […]
by Lucas McNelly on Jan 21, 2012 -
SUNDANCE: THE “FUTURE NORMAL” OF NEW FRONTIER
Now in its sixth year, the New Frontiers section at Sundance premiered yesterday at its new home at The Yard, in an unassuming building across from a snow-cloaked cemetery. Presenting the year’s crop of new media, transmedia and experiential video art to a room of press, Sundance programmer Shari Frilot explained her curatorial criteria, though not before a number of the pieces had to turn off their sound (a booming heart beat coming through the wall of Ho Tzu Nyen’s The Cloud of Unknowing on her left, the Wagnerian glory coming from Marco Brambilla’s Evolution (Megaplex) to her right.) “What […]
by Alicia Van Couvering on Jan 21, 2012 -
WELCOME TO PINE HILL: THE BREAKOUT HIT OF SLAMDANCE 2012!
Welcome to Pine Hill (4 minute clip, Backyard scene) from K M on Vimeo. Or What we’re doing to get people to see our movie in Park City “What do you want out of this film?” That’s been one of the first things people ask when starting to talk about Welcome to Pine Hill. If they really like it, they ask, “What’s your festival strategy?” Since Pine Hill was not the product of years of planning or a business model, the answer to the questions was easy: I wanted to finish the film; my festival strategy was to get into […]
by Keith Miller on Jan 20, 2012
