David Licata | September 2, 2011
The “vacation” continues, so here are some … what did Saturday Night Live call reruns, Encore Presentation? Well, here are some Encore Presentations of some earlier posts. Hope you enjoy them. From Concept to First Day of Shooting Why Do I Love These Shots? A Clip “How Do You Find These People?” The Cinematographers (I’m [...]
David Licata | March 16, 2011
cross-posted on http://www.extracriticum.com and The Film Society of Lincoln Center blog. People who know me well will tell you that I’m modest. But there is one thing I’ll drop without hesitation: I directed a film that screened at New Directors/New Films, a showcase presented by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of [...]
David Licata | March 4, 2011
For someone who studied music and plays music, I have a difficult time knowing what music to use with these moving images I capture. So much so that in my first film I didn’t use music at all, but used a multi-layered sound design instead. With Tango Octogenario, I knew I had to use tango [...]
David Licata | February 4, 2011
“The trajectory is right,” my friend H. said to me years ago about my filmmaking career. At a recent dinner with my friend S. we discussed what we wanted for our artistic lives in 2011: “I just want the trajectory to keep going up,” I said. “It doesn’t have to be steep, a little incline [...]
David Licata | April 23, 2010
Recently, I went to a Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra concert and on the program was Holst’s The Planets. The orchestra was excellent and the “Mars” section is always exciting to hear. Afterward, a friend and I strolled along the promenade in Brooklyn Heights. I mentioned this bit in the program notes, written by BSO’s Artistic Director [...]
David Licata | December 7, 2009
Last week I had the honor of being asked by Sheila Gulley Pleasants, Director of Artists’ Services at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, to screen my film Tango Octogenario to the VCCA Board of Directors and say a few words about the value and importance of artist residencies. I don’t remember exactly what [...]
David Licata | November 17, 2009
Recently I had a lovely sushi dinner with my friend Meryl, a photography-based artist and teacher. She had just watched the clips of A Life’s Work and was taken by the quality of the images. “How did you find such great cinematographers?” she asked. “A friend of a friend. That’s usually how it … actually, [...]
David Licata | August 22, 2009
[cross-posted at extracriticum.com] I was looking through the Extra Criticum archive and being a person who would rather look at images than read, I clicked on Rolando Teco’s “Why Do I Like This Shot?” It made me think of a question I’m sometimes asked (usually by fellow filmmakers) when I screen one of my films. [...]
David Licata | August 5, 2009
Friday, August 7th, I’m heading to Chicago to do the next interview. You’ll forgive me if I don’t reveal the subject by name yet. I will in time, perhaps after I’ve had time to digest the interviews. There is a chance, after all, that he won’t work in the film, but I’m confident he will. [...]
David Licata | July 21, 2009
I’ve added a Vodpod widget. The interview videos feature me and three other filmmakers. My bits focus on Tango Octogenario. Thanks to Jonathan Betzler for making the show happen. The video entitled Ends contains two favorite shots I’ve had some involvement with capturing. The first half is MOS, the second half has sound. I’ll explain [...]
