first day of school

I’m back at school after months of living by the whims of my own schedule and working on my own projects. It feels good to be back and challenged in a completely different way then I’ve been this summer. It’s great to be immersed in the talent, productivity and overachieving energy of my colleagues and [...]

cross stitch

The filmmaker in me loves these! (via Etsy and Design*Sponge)

morning

Mornings for me start anywhere between 7-8am. For farmers they start at 5am, when it’s completely dark outside. This morning at 5am – in complete darkness – I was following Luke up in to the high orchard to get the cows in for milking. I kept trying to film but I couldn’t see anything. By [...]

reflection

I’m back at the farm filming. Summer has taken over and the plants are out of control. I paused yesterday and took in the landscape and realized just how much it has changed since I started this project last February. And soon, as autumn approaches, the landscape will transform again. I’ve caught myself in a [...]

a historic cinematic experiment

If you have a video camera then make sure the batteries are charged and film the sunrise this Saturday morning – then film your breakfast, brushing your teeth, breast feeding your baby, your neighbors playing in the yard, your local farmer harvesting produce, yourself shopping at the farmers market, your kids eating ice cream, swimming [...]

Alamar

“A luminous, semi-documentary film that plays on the border of reality and fiction… (portraying) a tender, ritualistic passing of knowledge, experience and love from one generation to the next. Director Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio has constructed a film in which a journey has an overarching mythic resonance that evokes fables from ‘Robinson Crusoe’ to ‘The Old Man [...]

trust

Hal Hartly is a great American film director. A good friend of mine introduced me to his films a long time ago. He is a filmmaking hero to her and a few years ago we both got to meet him in person. He taught at Harvard in the same department I work in but before [...]

article

There is a really great article about this years Flaherty Film Seminar in Artforum.

i am lucky

I’m back in NH and I’ve just set my alarm clock for some god awful hour way before the sun comes up so I can be at the farm filming when the sun actually does come up. But lucky me, getting a summer of freedom to shoot and edit my film. This sort of freedom, [...]

i was there

I had such an incredible week at Flaherty. I don’t think I’ve ever watched so many films, talked to so many people, drank so much or slept so little. I saw many memorable films – a few of which i will write about in the coming weeks. After sleeping 12+ hours yesterday I’m feeling invigorated [...]