Filmmaker Craig Butta, while hesitant to read too much into the themes of his films, dishes out the high concepts which make his short Coney Island USA so poignant.
A resident curator specializing in the student filmmakers section of the prestigious Telluride Film Festival, filmmaker Godfrey Reggio sat with Barry Jenkins to speak about technology and its influence on both his work and the work of other...
Outside little exception, film is an art form that begs collaboration. It’s a creative process of back-and-forth, a shifting of images and sounds, and it’s not one easily completed in a vacuum. And, so when Gideon Kennedy found himself with a script for the short Exclusive...
I've heard before all the arguments regarding the need to compartmentalize books and movies, even if the latter is "based on" the former. After all, the resources available to filmmakers, and the directorial vision, indeed promote the appl...
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-savvy wave of individuals who nonetheless often note primary disconnections in communication.
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.
I’ve always been amazed by the power of music (not to mention that of smell) to reveal hitherto forgotten memories. A recollection fortunate enough to have been stored away with its own soundtrack reveals itself with more clarity and poignancy than its silent brethren.
