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All These Threads of Being
Now touted by SXSW as a movement, “mumblecore” to be exact, a term derived from an unwitting comment by sound mixer Eric Masunaga (Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation), the work of filmmakers Joe Swanberg, Ry Russo-Young and Andrew Bujalski among others speaks directly to the humor and pathos of a generation, a technologically-savv...
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Notes From the Miami Underground Film Festival
Taking time out for a quick cup of coffee, Raphael Diaz Wagner here shares his ideas about the Miami Underground Film Festival, making films in Miami, the trends in his own work and the relevance—or rather irrelevance—of the Miami International Film Festival to represent independent filmmakers working in South Florida.
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| Opinions & Ideas |
Americano Thursday
I never imagined it would be like this.
The drought. Drought of passion. Of camaraderie. Of moving images. I was a productive film student. Three years have passed. In that time, I have aged and grown bitter. There are images inside of me; things of great import which I can only communicate through cinema. As the man I have become, they seem impossible to realize.
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On the Process: Frankensteins
"(Mark & I) actively have to check in with ourselves all of the time, trying to figure out if we’re killing ourselves for the purposes of these movies. We have to actively consider our own personal enjoyment because for some reason movies start out as fun, and then they become these monsters, these Frankensteins that we’re trying to control. And, you can’t control them, there’s no way."~Director Jay Duplass (The Puffy Chair)
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Pushing Boundaries
“I’d hope that every filmmaker would have a desire to move things forward. I certainly do, but it’s certainly not easy. As soon as you open your mouth with something new and experiment and God Forbid try something different, it’s very easy to get hammered back down. People don’t like it as weird as that is. There seems to be a lot of aggressive nature against trying something different.
“It seemed to me that the smarter way to go about making a film would be to redo what had been do...
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The Personal Meets Film: Kris Williams
"When I was in college, my senior thesis was a documentary about my mother and her immigration to the United States from Cuba, and because of that film, I learned so much about my mother that I had never known before and wouldn’t have asked. Behind the camera, I was able to ask her questions that I would never ask her to sit down and find out about before. That was an amazing experience that I think changed my mother and I for the better."~ Filmmaker Kris Williams (Kissing on the Mouth, Young Am...
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