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Lily Henderson
“There’s a mood board above my desk that has a map of Las Vegas and then various notes, articles of inspiration, photographs from over the years,” says filmmaker Lily Henderson. “Dead center is a quote from the author John D’Agata that states: ‘I think the reason we’ve never pinpointed the real beginning to this genre is because we’ve never agreed on what the genre even is. Do we read nonfiction in order to receive information, or do we read it to experience art? It’s not very clear sometimes…I am here in search of art.’ And I am very much in […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 17, 2014 -
Heidi Saman
After studying literature at University of California-San Diego, Heidi Saman moved to Cairo, where she worked for a short time as a freelance journalist for an English-language newspaper. Having fallen in love with Italian neo-realist films she studied in an undergraduate film class, Saman struck on a movie idea while in Egypt. “Women didn’t occupy the streets at night,” she remembers. “Only the men were out. I wanted to know where the women were.” Four years later, Saman returned to Cairo to turn that idea into The Maid, her thesis film for Temple University’s graduate film program. She submitted the […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 17, 2014 -
Sean Porter
“Shooting Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter in Minnesota, it was 15 below,” remembers cinematographer Sean Porter. “Afterward I thought, I never want to be that cold again! So my wife and I just went for it.” Porter is referring to his recent move from New York to Ukiah, Calif., eight hours from Los Angeles, where the couple and their young son plan to “own some acreage somewhere, do some gardening and live a simpler life.” Most up-and-coming cinematographers might pause before committing to a home away from the production centers of New York and L.A. “It’s a little scary,” Porter admits. […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 17, 2014 -
Joe Callander
Bennington-bred and L.A.-based documentarian Joe Callander’s formal film training began and ended with a high school video production class. After acquiring an advertising degree, he took jobs as a Vespa mechanic in Manhattan and at a carbon fiber factory back home. In 2008, Callander quit and moved to Bangkok to make a documentary about a Vietnam veteran pursuing a Ph.D. “I was hoping for a story of redemption and second chances, but in hindsight that may have been a bit naïve,” he wrote in an email. “I shot 250 hours of footage and, six years later, ended up with a […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 17, 2014 -
All Together Now: Ned Benson on The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
When Ned Benson started writing The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby 10 years ago, he had no idea his directorial debut would permutate into a unique creature, or, by present count, four unique incarnations, all of which are equally subjective movie-going experiences. Eleanor Rigby world-premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013 as two features, Her and Him, joined into a 201-minute juggernaut. Her immediately immerses us into the sorrow of one Eleanor Rigby (Jessica Chastain), a woman who’s suffered a loss but cannot bear to talk about it, whether with her estranged husband, Conor (James McAvoy), her sister Katy […]
by Ray Pride on Jul 17, 2014 -
Matt Sobel
Currently in postproduction, Matt Sobel’s impressive debut feature, Take Me to the River, is poised to make waves on the festival circuit and beyond in 2015, but it’s had a circuitous path to the screen. Although he wanted to be a director since making short Spielberg-inspired films as a kid growing up in San Jose, California, Sobel enrolled not in film but in the fine arts program at the University of California-Los Angeles. He graduated with a sure sense of aesthetics and a short film he made on the side but not much knowledge of the industry. So, he hired […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 17, 2014 -
Still on the Job: Filmmakers on Their Second Jobs
Here’s the funny thing about an article on second jobs in filmmaking: It’s always relevant. The last piece I wrote for Filmmaker on this topic is still referenced: people continue to call me up to talk about it, and nearly as often as they did when it first appeared. But it’s been five years since I wrote it. So, as part of our ongoing look at the financial lives of artists, we thought it would be a good idea to revisit some of the filmmakers we interviewed in 2009 and see how their relationships with their second jobs have evolved […]
by Esther B. Robinson on Jul 17, 2014 -
Load & Play
12 O’Clock Boys Oscilloscope Laboratories — Aug. 5 Lotfy Nathan’s debut documentary gets up close and unsentimental with preteen Pug, whose only dream is to join the title crew of Baltimore’s weekend motorbike and four-wheeler riders. It’s a physically dangerous spectacle and a law-baiting traffic hazard for the city, but in Nathan’s NFL Films-style super-slow-mo it’s also a majestic procession and one-day release from systemic economic inequity and urban racial division. 12 O’Clock Boys sets four years of Pug’s life against the danger and thrill of his stunting idols’ most questionably liberating processions. — Vadim Rizov Under the Skin Lions […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 17, 2014 -
Lev Kalman + Whitney Horn
“We’ve never been comfortable with the term ‘satire,’” says Lev Kalman, one half of a filmmaking team with Whitney Horn. “We’ve always tried to figure out a word closer to what we are doing. It’s identifying with the characters much more than satire would, but we are also adding some layer of distance or context that is funny, highlighting the disconnect between them and their environment.” Kalman and Horn met as undergraduates at Columbia University but discovered film later when the two autodidacts were gifted with a 16mm camera by Horn’s uncle. Aside from a trial run or two, they’ve […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 17, 2014 -
Robert Eggers
“When we think of historical witches we think of persecuted herbalists, kind white witches, earth mothers — what the Wiccan, New Age-y stuff has grown out of. But what’s not talked about is the dark side of the early modern witch, and what she meant to not just men, but women. The witch embodied men’s fears and fantasies about women, good and bad, and also women’s fears and ambivalences about motherhood in a male-dominated society. And that baggage still exists in the unconscious of today.” That’s Brooklyn-based designer-turned-director Robert Eggers describing his first feature, The Witch, currently in post following […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 17, 2014
