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This is Where You Work: Eve Sussman
What sparks creativity? It’s safe to assume that an artist’s work environs affect the process of art-making, so perhaps it’s possible by examining those environs to find some of the seedlings of ideas, of productivity, that space engenders to get the mind to engage with work. That was the idea behind the “This Is Where You Work” series, and when I turned my focus to my first subject, filmmaker Braden King, I was a bit shocked by how relevant the idea was – the items and artifacts filling King’s workspace created a sort of map of his personal life and […]
by Zachary Wigon on Jul 24, 2012 -
Five Questions with Engagement Director Jon Lefkovitz
The trailer for Jon Lefkovitz’s micro-budget psychological thriller Engagement caught our eye here at Filmmaker. It’s a Hitchcock-inspired tale about an young groom-to-be and the woman who may or not be the sister of his out-of-town fiancée. The film is currently up on VOD through Film Buff, and below we ask Lefkovitz five questions about making smart genre entertainment for a price. Filmmaker: Where did the concept of the film come? What were your inspirations? Lefkovitz: The concept for Engagement is actually semi-autobiographical — in 2009, my then-fiancée (now wife) went away for six weeks, leaving me alone in our […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 24, 2012 -
QUARTERLY GIFTS TELL THEIR STORIES
In the current issue of Filmmaker, Lance Weiler writes about scarcity and abundance in the digital world — namely, the trend of digital artists creating physical media limited editions for their fans and followers. Weiler references several such projects in his piece, and, indeed, I’m discovering more every day. Here’s the latest: Quarterly, a subscription service that brings you a unique, curated gift from a trusted curatorial source every three months. “Each shipment tells a story,” the site promises. From the site: Quarterly is a new way to connect with the people you follow and find interesting. We spend so […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 24, 2012 -
Soul Surfing Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
Up now on Filmmaker’s curated Kickstarter page is Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, the second feature from Sam Fleischner. The production is in the final days of its campaign and could use your help. What follows is a guest blog post from producer Veronica Nickel. What do we want?! When do we want it?! The next question in that cheer should be: how in the hell do we get what we want right now? Sam Fleischner’s answer must be to assemble the best incognito team that you can find and get out and make your movie. Undeterred by a […]
by Veronica Nickel on Jul 20, 2012 -
Ian Clark
Behind every one of our 25 New Faces is a story and, fittingly, the 25 New Faces list itself plays a crucial role in the tale of Ian Clark’s creative development. In 2007, Clark had just finished a BFA in photography at the University of Montana in Missoula. While at school he had been snowboarding and also making videos of his fellow boarders. However, he was frustrated that they were only interested in him capturing their stunts, and that his attempts at putting a stylistic stamp on the videos were considered an unnecessary embellishment. Looking back, Clark recalls that the […]
by Webadmin on Jul 19, 2012 -
Terence Nance
“I call it ‘one-sided nonfiction,’” says Terence Nance about his dizzyingly creative first feature, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty. An indescribable romantic drama with a wonderfully elastic form, the picture finds writer, director and star Nance obsessing over his own stalled, real-life near-romantic relationship with a young woman, the charismatic Namik Winter, who intriguingly plays herself on screen. “It’s what I remember,” continues Nance. “She says in the movie that it’s factually correct. But I’ve put it onscreen to my music, so it’s biased one-way emotionally.” There’s an American independent history of auteur film as self-analysis, and there have been […]
by Webmaster on Jul 19, 2012 -
Jillian Mayer and Lucas Leyva
It’s a bit of a cliché, an American independent filmmaker making a film inspired by a classic French art film. But Jillian Mayer’s Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke, which played Sundance and SXSW this year, is a work of such whacked-out originality and manic invention that it exists in a cinematic alternate universe far away from all the Truffaut-aping first-timers. Calling itself a “modern Miami adaptation” of Chris Marker’s 1962 meditation on time travel, love and mortality, La Jetée, Uncle Luke finds Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew as the last man on earth, fighting for the First […]
by Webmaster on Jul 19, 2012 -
Jonas Carpignano
Jonas Carpignano is an unusual cat with an unusual set of skills. He’s a cross pollinator, a man who defies labels, in an industry that loves them. Carpignano, a black Italian-American who works and lives between New York City and Rome, is something of a Court 13 character, having worked as second second a.d. on Beasts of the Southern Wild, while his fingerprints are ubiquitous on a whole host of strong NYU grad shorts over the past few years in a variety of roles, from cinematographer and gaffer, to editor and production manager. His own directorial contribution to that education […]
by Webmaster on Jul 19, 2012 -
Ryan Coogler
Ryan Coogler remembers the first moment it occurred to him to become a film director. Having grown up in Oakland, Coogler was on a football scholarship to Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif., where he had to take a creative writing class. The assignment was to write about a personal experience, and Coogler wrote about the time his father almost bled to death in his arms. He handed it in, and the professor called him into her office. What did Coogler want to do with his life? “Play ball, become a doctor and be a positive influence in my community,” […]
by Webmaster on Jul 19, 2012 -
Treva Wurmfeld
We invent stories, narrative personas fixed in autobiographical form, to understand ourselves. For some of us, these stories are modest ones — simple acceptances of conventional social roles. For others they are grander, more mythic. Throughout his life, Sam Shepard has created compelling fictions about not only the postwar American man, but America itself. The restless characters of his plays, often the product of turbulent families, invent and reinvent themselves, reinvigorating the concept of the American frontier experience along the way. These characters are echoed in Shepard himself, a romantic figure, both Hollywood star and loner artist, relentlessly following his […]
by Webmaster on Jul 19, 2012
