Film Festival
DN LFF2011: Amador – Fernando León de Aranoa
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] In the fifth feature from Spanish director Fernando León de Aranoa, a woman must reconcile dignity with personal necessity after forging a difficult friendship with the elderly, bedridden Amador. We caught up with Fernando at the London Film Festival to discuss his background as a writer and why [...]
DN LFF2011: Without – Mark Jackson
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Named as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, director Mark Jackson has crafted a perfectly balanced portrait of a young woman balancing on the edge of sanity, whilst drowning in the depths of grief in his feature debut Without. A lot of it is [...]
DN LFF2011 – The Black Power Mixtape 1967 – 1975 – Göran Hugo Olsson
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] After discovering a cache of nearly 85 hours of pristine 16mm film shot by Swedish news reporters documenting the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the black community, director Göran Hugo Olsson brought together contemporary commentators and musicians to bring the material to life and so create [...]
DN LFF2011: Darwin – Nick Brandestini
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] In the first of our London Film Festival interviews we sit down with director Nick Brandestini to discuss his feature documentary Darwin; a look at an isolated community of 35 residents who live at end of a weathered road in Death Valley, California. When we saw there was [...]
Back in the LFF
After leaving you in the capable hands of Danni Lizaitis last year, I’m extremely happy to be returning to the London Film Festival for its 55th iteration. As always, I have the envious job of watching as many films as possible and talking to the directors whose work has made the greatest impression over the [...]
onedotzero_adventures in motion 2011 preview
This year’s onedotzero_adventures in motion festival is just a couple months away, but for now here’s a peek at what’s to come. onedotzero_adventures in motion 2011 preview from onedotzero on Vimeo.
TUB
Last year, I was inexplicably drawn to a short with the tagline: Paul jerked off in the shower. Paul just impregnated his bath tub. That short turned out to be TUB, a brilliantly weird, at times comedic, at times horrific film from The Bobby Miller. I tracked Bobby down amidst the rowdiness of Austin’s 6th [...]
Reading & Leeds 2011
It’s the start of the August Bank Holiday, the long weekend that annually plays host to the Reading and Leeds music festivals, which can only mean that the lucky folks heading to those two locations over the next few days are going to have the opportunity to sample the delights of the Directors Notes & [...]
Person Pinball
Aaron Hughes’ closing bumper for the eighth Animation Block Party film festival turns unsuspecting passers-by in to components in his human pinball machine. Person Pinball- 2011 Animation Block Party ‘Outro’ from aaron hughes on Vimeo.
RSSF2011: Long Form
If you love shorts, then you’ll know that it’s easy to have too much of a good thing. Many a short film full of promise has blown a promising concept simply by not getting whilst the going’s good, lingering like an unwanted house guest. In fact, many filmmakers have found to their peril that once [...]
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