Idiot with a Tripod
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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 […]
by Nick Dawson on Nov 13, 2012 -
“IDIOT” VICTORY LAP
Congrats to Filmmaker contributor Jamie Stuart, whose short film, “Idiot with a Tripod,” appears on Time Magazine’s end-of-2011 “Best of Everything” — #3 in the list of “Top Ten Creative Videos.” Wrote Time’s Craig Duff: Many New Yorkers who were away for the holidays last year (like me) watched the weather reports the day after Christmas and wondered if the blizzard bearing down on the city would strand us in other states (it did). As the snow began to fall that day outside his Queens apartment, Jamie Stuart thought of legendary filmmaker Dziga Vertov. He grabbed a video-capable DLSR camera […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 8, 2011 -
JAMIE STUART AND THE CITY SYMPHONY
At the Chicago Sun-Times in a column entitled “The do-it-yourself auteurs,” Steven Boone writes about the city symphony film and ties it to Jamie Stuart’s recent Idiot with a Tripod. He puts Stuart in a category of “DDIY” (the extra “d” is for “digital”) filmmakers who are the “garage Kubricks” once prophesized by William Gibson. There’s also a video by Kevin B. Lee with text by Boone. Check it out below.
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 21, 2011
