This Kind of Town

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Recently done to the point of wanting to share it with the world beyond Boulder: This Kind of Town, in which the story of Ward, Colorado is told via audio stolen appropriated from Westerns. Upcoming screenings include San Francisco Cineatheque’s Crossroads film fesitval (April 16-18) and the Iowa City International Documentary film festival (April 15-17).

Chickenshack Village opens at BMOCA 9/25

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CSVSkull

The Baseline Group’s Chickenshack Village project will be opening at the BMOCA this Friday, September 25 from 6:30 to 8 pm. I filmed the initial build last semester on super-8, and that documentation will be continuously playing (on video) during the exhibit- above and below are a couple of stills. On Saturday September 26 at 10 am BMOCA wil also host the Rural Art/Urban Agriculture Symposium in conjunction with the exhibit.

CSVchickens

Update: you can see the super-8 documentation here.

summer project

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I’ve just returned from a trip to the Açores, Portugal, filming sites on the islands related to my family’s history, landscapes remembered and misremembered from stories about “the old country” I grew up hearing. Hot tip: security at the Lisbon airport ain’t about to hand check your film unless you can show them a letter from INAC (Instituto Nacional de Aviação Civil), a fact that I’d have figured out earlier if my Portuguese was a bit better.

This project should debut November 30 at a graduate student showcase as part of the First Person Cinema series; it was supported by a Beverly Sears grant from the CU Boulder Graduate School.

Casa d'Silva's Pico Açores (8)


Sister Alchemy video

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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.

5 or 6 minutes on cinematic time

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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).