sunday am, in a flash of inspiration we kicked back our flight to be filmmakers one more day. Our server for breakfast was tina [holiday inn overland park w.] Yeah I got 4 kids, I'm home schooling them and working two jobs, I'm divorcing my husband, you guys seem so nice, please take me with you. staso has this ability where he can get complete strangers to tell him their most intimant details. I can get anybody to tell me everything.
highlight # 1 got to the theater early and witnessed Guy Maddin and Ben Meade making a super 8 film in the theater. It was great to see them in action. It seems guy got in early the morning from toronto [see bone blog 2a] and they immediately began making a film. First shot was ben meade laying on the ground filming an opencockpit plane containing guy maddin filming him, there was a pilot. I just caught the end but the casting was fantastic, and the direction to a 4 year old kid, just get in the shot and we'll give you some popcorn was refreshingly old school.
highlight # 2 [n.b.f.] Anne nordas' film "red is the color of" played to a packed house at the 1:30pm screening, [we now know the best time slot for kansas city], Her film was a lot more than sexy it had the audience drenched in pulsating waves of unrequited desire, hands were starting to roam, well staso's. It's a story of two artists, one successful, Mary. One not, David. In between them expertly playing both sides of a broken fence was the nymphette that being artist's we've always dreamed about. Set in a calculating art world, Mary is a blood painter and has attracted the attention of young misguided girls with nothing to do who have formed a fan base called the bloody marys, add in the above mentioned art world, some botched suicides, a sensitive faithful husband and the pic unfolds. The dialogue is smart and sassy and surprisingly unL.A. and the performances, especially the two women, are soulful. Great, NO bullshit film. coincidently we couldn't help but notice [see bankrobberlondon.com for pete doherty's blood paintings]
This was followed by Amour Legende - A film set in the desert with the keys locked in the car, this was the 1st act. In spanish, english, japanese and mandarin. A little dificult to follow.
More compelling was "The rich have their own Photographers" a doc by Ezra Bookstein about Milton Rogovin. this guy is the shit, a former huac victim and optimetrist he commenced his photographic carreer in his fifties, shooting his Buffalo NY neighborhood, the Lower West Side. His work captures the residents of this decayed, detiriorating forgotten neighborhood in all their glory. Since he's still alive at 97, he returned every decade to photograph his subjects if, they were still alive. Many weren't. Ezra Bookstein handles this film with the grace that it deserves. Check it out! www.tellingimagefilms.com, [a tip the photographer Rogovin enjoys hearing from people, leave an e mail] www.miltonrogovin.com
it's in links.
Next, was the ronald brothers Netherbeast, a fun corporate vampire film w/ a bunch of inspired television [you know them Judd Nelson, Robert Wagner] actors. But after 10
hours in the dark, we were suffering from severe theaterbutt [new word].
The evening ended at the KIFF hospitality room for Ben Meades [33] birthday - cake-bud light and tequilla in a bucket, don't ask.
stay tuned for the coney island fest.
glimmer away.
far as i got
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