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You’d think that running Directors Notes would mean I spend all my time at screenings and hobnobbing with directors, but the sad reality is that most of my filmmaker contact is via Skype, email and screeners, partially because they live in different countries to me, but more often than should be the case laziness and [...]
As part of my CINECITY ‘07 Film Festival coverage I caught up with DJ and director Alex Reuben at South East Dance’s Dance For Camera launch to discuss his dance road movie Routes and the roll of dance as a major tool in documentary filmmaking.
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Alex Reuben
Alex Reuben MySpace
CINECITY
South East Dance
Anthology of American [...]
Routes (2007)
A dance road-movie inspired by Harry Smith’s compilation, Anthology of American Folk Music. Alex Reuben sets out on the road to document lesser-known forms of American culture and the extraordinary dancing Americans of the Deep South.
Rubén Obregón Casas, left a career in the US military to become a director and today joins me to discuss for his lyrical lovers parted tale, La Primavera.
La Primavera Materials
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La Primavera MySpace
OFVM
Carling Reading & Leeds Festival
onedotzero
Jarhead
UCLA
Digital Intermediate
Telenovela
Fado Music
La Primavera (2006)
A lyrical telling of a brief encounter between a US Navy Sailor and a young woman at a South American port town, La Primavera delves into the fleeting moments of uncertainty and flux that test the bounds of emotional connection.
My guest today is Lana Schwarcz talking about the plethora of creative roles she fills and her alternate reality piece The Upper Hand, where humans and puppets come together to bet on cross-species striping contests.
The Upper Hand Materials
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That Lana Girl MySpace
That Girl Entertainment
Marc Fennell’s Film Ed 101
Lana’s ABC Video Lives
Tropfest
The Portable [...]
The Upper Hand (2006)
When the ordinary no longer sustains its audience, the ultimate performer will do almost anything to get them back on side.
Mistress Marvel’s Burlesque Club and MC Randy invite puppets to mingle with live humans to see Lulu Fountain (pron. FounTAINE) vs Capability Brown in a competitive strip-off that is sure to blow [...]
Our guest director today Nicolas d’Haussy, is a master at keeping an eye on the minutia of a project, even when working with no budget and a volunteer crew as he did on the AIDs information ad spot, It’s Beautiful.
It’s Beautiful Materials
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Nicolas’ Site
Frenchkiss
Manganelli
Shynola
Air - The Virgin Suicides
Carol Goode
Supinfocom
Josephine Baker
Escape Pod
Samantha Henderson
It’s Beatiful (2006)
Part of a 10 film series to educate and combat against the spread of AIDS.
Frame of Mind (2004)
It’s the aftermath of a party and time to leave, but something, or someone, is holding this girl back…