Back in May I was interviewed about Discouraging Words for the cable access show Filmmaker’s Studio. Not my best or most coherent interview, but in my defense I hadn’t slept more than about twenty hours in the week preceding the interview.
Anyway, the show is embedded below:
[YouTube]
…And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings…
…put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
Picture lock.
Post-production on Discouraging Words is getting crazy (in a good way?) because I need to have a screener done by the seventh of May. Here’s where I withdraw into my hole and become an antisocial hermit until the movie is finished, so if you send me an e-mail or Facebook message or the like, don’t expect to necessarily get a reply. Ever. Fair warning—that’s just the way I roll.
Anyway, here are two things that you might find interesting. First, a frame from some news graphics I’m currently rendering out:
And here is an actual scene, presented in its entirety: (more…)
No sense in keeping a lid on this anymore… (more…)
Many years ago, back when I was first making films with any seriousness, I helped to make a short film entitled RRRR. I did not write it, nor did I direct it. The movie was—quite intentionally—relevant to nothing. The only comment it received on YouTube was “not funny.”
The central (only?) point of the movie was that you couldn’t play the word ‘RRRR’ in Scrabble.
…until this week, when Mattel announced a new version of Scrabble that allows the use of proper nouns. Since RRRR is the title of the film, it is a proper noun and therefore a playable Scrabble word!
I’m so, so sorry.
Here I am being surprisingly articulate and self-effacing (if I do say so myself) while discussing politics, performance and other things related to Third Party ’08 and Discouraging Words with Lawrence Levesque on the TV show Student Short Films:
Also on this episode is a very funny short film by Clifton Archuleta called The Company Man.
Shortly after his trip to Pittsburgh for the G20 summit, President Obama made a brief visit to MCAD. I ran into him over lunch in the cafeteria. By pure chance, I had a Marantz with me and landed a short interview. It’s been the highlight of my year!