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McCullin
Tonight we went to see a screening of McCullin, an documentary retrospective about veteran war photographer Don McCullin made by his long-time friend and assistant Jacqui Morris. The screening we saw was a work in progress with ungraded film, place-holder … Continue reading
Tab Ularasa
Came across this video on Clusterflock and was very much taken by it. The Vimeo bio begins: tab_ularasa Russia myspace.com/fuckcinema I MADE VIDEO IN OLD SCHOOL WAY ONLY FOR BANDS THAT I LIKE I MADE EXPERIMENTAL INTERACTIVE VIDEO RESEARCH TO … Continue reading
The setting is not the subject
Went to see Black Swan yesterday. It’s a very confusing film, but not in a bad way. It’s both a beautiful masterpiece of cinema and a batshit crazy piece of trash, and both in the best possible senses. I liked … Continue reading
Not the Facebook movie
We went to see The Social Network. It’s a very enjoyable film. I was gripped, entertained, amused and disappointed when it ended. It wasn’t about Facebook, or at least the plot was about Facebook but the point of the movie … Continue reading
Shooting the shooters
Last night I did some stills photography at a film shoot. Turbulence is a low-budget feature set and shot at the Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath. Apparently in order to enter film festivals and the like a film needs … Continue reading