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FCN – Film Crew Network – is, in its own words “a Network that puts quality before quantity keeping things up close and personal to support each member through their developments. It doesn’t matter where you are in your career our crew will welcome and help you out since we we all started somewhere and sometimes all we needed was some inspiration and support to keep us buzzing and on track. On FCN you will be able to meet some very cool individuals that have worked on gigs we all dream of, make some valuable connections, share and learn from some of the best in the industry.”

SOME FCN FEATURES:
JOB post and respond
PROJECTS create & invite crew onto your projects
NETWORK develop your specialist list of contacts
ALBUMS create and develop unlimited
ADVERTISE yourself or your business
SHOWREEL & video upload and share
GROUP & EVENT creation and participation
UNRESTRICTED contact on the Network

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Come hear “String Cheese” play… storyjazz by the waterside.


The first time I heard String Cheese was in 1999 and the music never stopped. This is a full show, take a bite, start anywhere you want. (minute 46, for example?) If you don’t know this jam band, listen in. They depart wildly from basic melodic structures and verses, opening up spaces for unforgettable creative vibes in motion, jazzy ripples circling juicy refrain patterns.

What’s that got to do with film, you say?

re:mix a proposal about identities and borders

I found this interesting Call For Curators by International ArtExpo Festivals. The idea is that a curator or group of film artists can submit a proposal and present a hybrid event in Photography, Video Art, CG and Performing Arts, among others.

call for curators

The main theme is the Hybridization and mixing of Identities and borders.

Nowadays, urban environments, people, rules and limits are no more distinct realities, but they constantly modify and get mixed together, generating new connections and hybrid results. Ethic, social, sexual and religious borders get confused and we feel free to overcome and change all the limits, creating and showing a new type of identity: a crossbreed of characters inserts into a metropolis in which you can find everything you need and become everything you desire.

International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization dedicated to contemporary art and video art that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. Its object is to use new technologies to globalize the language of art, to connect the conceptual points of contact of artists working in every part of the world, all united in the thick plot of the world net and with one will: to communicate through art, a language that transcends boundaries and geographical barriers.

International ArtExpo
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33
70122 Bari (Italy)
www.lucacurci.com/artexpo

 

 

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.

yup.

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.