Moze

Moze has written 4 posts for Directors Notes

A Human Sausage, a Human Torso, and Maybe Myself

By Moze ⋅ April 6, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

Airports are meant to be transitory spaces; they are bleak and filled with transitory merchandise. At least, they should be, unless you’ve made a really stupid decision and bought a ticket with an 8-hour layover at a deserted airport in Nyköping (pronounced, for better or for worse, Nish-ping), Sweden. Stay in an airport for more than a [...]

ÉCU2010: The Shorts

By Moze ⋅ March 16, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Before the films started, the owner of the Cinéma le Grand Action, an intense-looking woman with miraculous cheekbones and a stubborn, unwavering coiffure that could only have been coiffed here in Paris, took center-floor to speak. She was excited and gracious, and her energy zapped away my roly-poly wine catalepsy. Well, enough pussyfooting. I’m going [...]

ÉCU2010: Reaching Roise – Jessica Morris

By Moze ⋅ March 16, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

I am tumbling through a rainbow of identification tags, frantically scouring for red – a red tag means a filmmaker. In my as yet futile hunt (not for lack of red tags, but rather for penetrable conversations), I overhear someone British. This is a plus, in that it means that the only language barriers between [...]

ÉCU2010: The Grand Entrance

By Moze ⋅ March 14, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Try as we might, it’s just impossible for us to be at every festival worthy of DN coverage. The fourth year of Paris’ European Independent Film Festival (ÉCU) is one such place. So we asked writer Moze Halperin to bring DN the lowdown on this year’s festival. Something of a novice as far as film [...]