Archive for December, 2007
DN EP 068 - SICK - Mike Rymer
Mike Rymer joins us to discuss his short film ‘SICK’, which explores the rarely openly discussed problem of depression and the life altering effects it can cause for its suffers.
‘SICK’ Materials
Stills
Press Pack
Showlinks
EgoProject Films
Patchwork Productions
‘SICK’ Mini-Site
‘SICK’ IMDb
EgoProject Films’ MySpace
EgoProject Films’ YouTube
International Film School of Wales
21 Grams
Film London
The [...]
SICK - Mike Rymer
‘SICK’ (2007)
The experience of depression and alcoholism have left Brian’s daughter (Amanda) relying on him for her son’s welfare. When Brian’s wife dies and he gives the child into social care, Amanda’s world falls apart and she and her father don’t speak for 15 years. That is until she gathers the strength to visit him.
HD Heaven on Earth
On a recent trip to London, I decided to take a trip to one of my favourite cinematic haunts and visit the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square, to see Alastair Fothergill’s documentary, Earth.
DN EP 067: Four Eyed Monsters - Arin Crumley & Susan Buice
Along with the great selection of films you’d expect to see, the Times BFI 51st London Film Festival, presented Power to the Pixel - The Digital Distribution Forum for Independents. Festival Director Sandra Hebron, introduced lead advocates and practitioners of digital distribution, along with filmmakers currently making digital distribution work for them. Perhaps the [...]
Four Eyed Monsters - Arin Crumley & Susan Buice
Four Eyed Monsters (2005)
Four glittering eyes, two pink mouths, and eight limbs wrapped around itself taking up two seats on the subway.
The West Side Back…Again
I’m not sure what happened to my first post about this as the internet trolls appear to have eaten it, but suffice to say I was very witty and heaped praise on Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo and Zachary Lieberman, who are past guests, for the triumphant return of The West Side with episode two. Great work guys!
DN EP 066: Happy Monday - Andrew Filippone Jr
If you’re of the view that after just over 100 years of existence the form of film is a locked down certainty, my guest Andrew Filippone Jr’s piece Happy Monday, a documentary film object, suggests otherwise in its depiction of the death of the short film Happy Monday Mr. Krebs whose motionless 16mm reels form [...]
Happy Monday - Andrew Filippone Jr
Happy Monday (2006)
In Happy Monday documentarian Andrew Filippone Jr. tells a simple story through a radically new formal language for non-fiction film, where story and subject are externalized and made tangible. Looking anew at his first film project - a failed and unfinished decade-old narrative short - Filippone recasts the unused 16mm negative into a [...]
DN EP 065: _grau - Robert Seidel
Whilst many filmmakers fall in to the trap of creating pretty pictures for their own sake, the best artists produce films in which each frame is infused with meaning and a personal perspective unique to them. Robert Seidel is one such artist who’s experimental piece _grau, is a journey through his memories that utilises every [...]
_grau - Robert Seidel
_grau (2004)
_grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally - various real sources where distorted, filtered and fitted into a sculptural structure to create not a plain abstract, but a very private snapshot of a whole life within its [...]
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