Drove through Gold Hill today, a dirt road mountain town about 20 minutes from Boulder that kinda looks like the set of a movie that takes place on the “frontier,” and ran out of gas. A nice fellow in the general store sold us some gas from his personal stash, then let us check out the kiva he built in his backyard, modeled after the ideas of this guy.
“Murder Capital” has a couple of upcoming screenings:
Ann Arbor Film Festival, March 25 9:30 pm
Experiments in Cinema V4.2 (ABQ, NM), April 17 8:30 pm
Ann Arbor spring break! Anyone?
Ah, fruits of field research put to good use.
Martin Acres is a subdivision in Boulder south of the university, full of small, single-family homes built in the 1950s. As a part of site-based research for the Baseline Group, I went on a photographic excursion in the neighborhood. Continue reading site research- Martin Acres
I’ll be playing music, or some close approximation thereof, at Rhinoceropolis in Denver again on February 21 with Mi Ami and Thank You.
Uploaded the Donovan Quinn and the 13th Month super-8 “video” today, the beauty of the film grain definitely loses something in the digital translation (especially at the end, which is push-processed) but I don’t think it looks too bad.
I’ve generally been pretty resistant to making music videos, but now I’m kinda pumped to try and make more considering how many talented folkses I’m lucky to know. To the future! Again, check out Donovan and company here.
Before the performance of Los Comanches, dancers filed out of the Alcalde church and performed Los Matachines, a folk dance that involves a monarch, a bride, a bull, and buffalo with whips. The costumes were AMAZING, but I couldn’t justify filming the dancers since they didn’t fit into my project (hello no budget!). Luckily, Nic took a bit of video.
Here’s a nice article that summarizes the symbolism and possible historical origins of both Los Matachines and Los Comanches.
After a very mellow holiday that included spending xmas eve at the pub, I headed down to Northern New Mexico along with Dawn (my MFA classmate) and Nic to film Los Comanches, an equestrian folk play about Juan Batista de Anza’s battle with Comanche chief Cuerno Verde, performed every year in the village of Alcalde. This is another part of my larger project about layers of history in the Southern Colorado landscape. Events depicted in the play occurred somewhere near Colorado City, as commemorated by the Cuerno Verde rest stop along the 25 (filmed that too). Continue reading Los Comanches
OK, I created a Vimeo account sos I can slap a video or two onto this blog. Signed up on that site rather than Youtube because I’m not particularly interested in wide dissemination, I really only want the capability to embed here.
The following is not a “piece,” it’s the final digital essay I created for a class. The assignment was a 5 minute video addressing issues of time and the moving image, filmmaker influences, and direct theory as postulated by Edward Small. I put together a couple of Bela Tarr clips and blabbed a bit over the top. The result barely skims the surface of some pretty chewy subject matter, but hey, I’m already trashing the 5 minute limit. Anyone who wants to discuss spatial practice and Deleuze’s crystals of time in depth can take me out for a drink.
errata: I seem to suggest that Lars Rudolph (the main character in Werckmeister Harmonies-which I misspell) is a grizzled Hungarian. This is incorrect; he’s a (beautiful) German. Also, Vimeo wants to tell you to comment on the video on their site. Except you can’t. Moronic comments are one of my biggest complaints about video sharing sites- actually, about “Web 2.0” in general- so I turned them off (there, not here).
Nic developed some rolls of b&w recently, so here are some more stills from the projects I’ve been working on. The black and white looks so beautiful that it makes me second guess my decision to film in color. It’s so hard not to fall in love with the images; it’s so easy to forget that the most beautiful image is not necessarily the best/ most appropriate one for my films.
(all photos by Nicholas Seivert)
Mars Saude 