“Charlie Rose” by Samuel Beckett via Andrew Filippone Jr.

Remember Happy Monday, Andrew Filippone Jr.’s documentary film object (DN066)? Well Andrew’s applied his skills to distort the world of Charlie Rose in a new experimental piece. I could mangle together my own description of the piece and probably still be way off the mark so instead read Andrew’s description, watch the film and let [...]

DN EP 066: Happy Monday – Andrew Filippone Jr

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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. [...]

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 [...]