How To Film Festival
A while ago I put out a query to filmmakers asking them to recount their experiences at film festivals and what to do and what not to do at them. I intended to submit it to Submittable, which had a … Continued
Nebraska, A Life’s Work and the Steady March of Technology
I recently read (well, listened to, actually) Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, by Warren Zanes. (I recommend it.) A substantial part of the book delves into the technology Springsteen used to record the songs, a … Continued
How’d the Festival Go?
Here’s a recap of A Life’s Work’s premiere at the 19th Kansas International Film Festival. Yes, it was more than two months ago. I attended the festival, but did not sit in on the screening, and thank god for that! … Continued
Six Hours Is Not Long Enough, and Too Long — Wild Wild Country
Interesting article the other week in The Atlantic by Ronit Feinglass Plank about the Netflix documentary, “Beyond the Spectacle of Wild Wild Country, ” a six-hour film about a religious leader (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) and his enthusiastic followers ( “sannyasins”) numbering in … Continued
Regrets? Maybe.
I remembered this exchange between Soleri and me the other day and thought, why not post it again, you know, as a super special encore presentation! Hope you like it. I.G. took advantage of this blog’s stellar feature, Ask the … Continued
Interview with Filmmaker Aimee Madsen
In the spring of 2010, a Google Alert mentioned a documentary in production about Paolo Soleri that wasn’t A Life’s Work. I was curious and reached out to the filmmaker, Aimee Madsen. We’ve communicated since about each others’ work and … Continued
What a D.P. Sees
I am always awed by how cinematographers see so much more than I do. We can be looking at exactly the same thing, the same angle, the same frame, and they’ll register all sorts of details, big and small, on … Continued
Five Documentaries That Influenced A Life’s Work
Because I have lists on the brain, here’s another: films that have had a huge impact on me in general, and on A Life’s Work in particular. Grey Gardens The first time I saw the Maysles’ Grey Gardens it made … Continued
To Friend or Not to Friend: A New Documentary Dilemma – Resolved
I originally posted this on Extra Criticum, a blog about the performing arts written by performing artists. I write about film mostly. This post is dated April 1, 2009. Two things you may not know about me. One, I’m making … Continued
How Do You Find These People? Robert Darden
I’m not shy about telling people about the film and sometimes they will suggest a subject. (I love it when their first response is a laugh followed by, “That sounds like me and my garage.” Really, I do, because that’s … Continued