Monthly Archives: September 2013
Stop Motion Last Supper by Charlie (the Kaufmans, that is)
Charlie Kaufman (and his brother) is a writer everyone seems to love. When I ask “who’s your favorite screenwriter” usually it’s either Kaufman or Tarantino or “the guy who wrote Seven“.
One of the reasons i think we seem to remember Charlie Kaufman as the author (more than whoever directed) is because he downloads his imagination straight into our gut. His worlds crack open or double up, crumble inside out and upside down, like our very own.
The best way to tell a personal story of truth, according to Federico Fellini, is to invent a whole environment of fiction. Not a dream world necessarily, but a believable make-believe in which the forces of drama embody people. People who fight their own gut instincts, people paralysed by the impossible choices in love and life.
It’s always a pleasure to hear filmmakers like Charlie Kaufman talk with candor and humility.
And – if you haven’t yet – take a look at Charlie Kaufman’s crowdfunded stop-motion animation
“Anomalisa”
+ metaphor, – rethoric. Cuaron on shooting his 3-week screenplay.
@Cinemahead we map scripts because it makes the process of writing less painful and more fun. A story map makes the making-of a script faster, visual, imaginative. Plus, it makes it easy to collaborate.
I ran into this YouTube interview with Alfonso Cuaron, director of “Y Tu Mama Tambien”. Listen to what he has to say about coming up with and directing “Gravity”. He says it was “a script that took three weeks to write”, a story rooted in personal adversities.
GoPro meet Docmob
This video is from a Himalaya Motocross tour. A father and son’s story with a warm tone and high stakes.
Our micro doc site docmob.net doesn’t yet contain any Go Pro films, but it has a free manifesto to download, that sets up the basic principles of making miniature documentaries 30 steps from mainstream.
Anybody out there making GoPro #DocMob films?
Live Cinema ain’t dead.
I went to see AVANT Live Cinema and I wish you had too. Live, wow. Done, gone. That sort of thing.
Avantfilm.se is the no-budget experimental film festival that happens every off the beaten map in Karlstad, Sweden. This was edition n.10, all organized by the indefatigable film studies prof. John Sundholm.
In the past Gunvor Nelson, Bruce McClure and other avant-gardists have treated the audience to rare personal films.
Here are a few moving images from this year’s magical Live Cinema happening.