weekend!

I’ll be working this weekend – big grant application due on Tuesday and then I’ll be heading up to the farm to film some more. It’s hard to believe I’m just a few weeks away from starting back at school…Holding on to the summer as long as I can. (photo via Denver Post: America in [...]

movie poster

I love this movie poster (and want to see the movie!)

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 [...]

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 [...]

adventure

I’m packing up my suitcase tonight and heading off to Hamilton, NY tomorrow for the 56th Flaherty Film Seminar. I was lucky enough to get a fellowship to attend the Seminar this year and I’m so excited to be a part of this event. It’s a bit legendary in my mind, over the years I’ve [...]

filming week

I am up at the farm filming for the next few days. Be back soon. (via Flickr)

filmmaking

I’ve been busy filming at the farm. It’s been over a month since I was last here and so much has happened. The crops are planted, the fences are up and the cows are out to pasture. I’m excited to be back and to dig in and really get into this film, I’ve put aside [...]