May 31, 2002
I tested out Shutterfly, which, on paper (or in a powerpoint presentation for VC funding), seems like a throwback to 1999, that wistful era when putting an e- in front of everything was all we needed to usher in...
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10:46 AM
Apropos of nothing, really: I just got home and am catching the last few minutes of Where Angels Fear To Tread, otherwise known as the E. M. Forster adaptation Merchant Ivory didn't do (Although with the Italian setting, and...
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8:04 AM
May 30, 2002
In this article in Prospect Magazine Mark Cousins provides a whirlwind history of film theory as he explores the question-turned-tagline: Should cinema tell the truth? ( Here is a list of Cousins' other Prospect articles. He seems like a...
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11:27 AM
In Central Park, the only part of the Whitney Biennial I saw includes a very nice sculpture by Keith Edmier. Located on 60th Street, on a site usually programmed by The Public Art Fund (which collaborated in the Biennial's...
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6:40 AM
May 29, 2002
In the Voice today, there are a couple of interesting articles about the (most recent) death knell of independent cinema (Universal's ringing up its purchase of Good Machine) and how there are no options left for emerging/just-starting-out directors. And...
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11:28 AM
when I put the tagline in greg.org's directory listing on NYC Bloggers ("following the making of an independent film and the film...maker who... made it."), I was, of course, making reference to Austin Powers. Naturally, in this grand, navel-gazing...
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6:36 AM
May 28, 2002
Back in New York after a weekend in DC. First things first: Invites are out for the preview screening of Souvenir November 2001 on June 3rd. Send email if you're interested in joining us. Sent off the application for the...
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11:30 AM
May 26, 2002
Congratulations to Paul Thomas Anderson, co-winner of the Best Director Award for Punch-Drunk Love at Cannes. The Palme D'Or for Short Film was awarded to PÈter Meszaros for Eso Utan (After Rain). And congratulations to HBO for their documentary,...
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11:22 AM
May 25, 2002
"Damn you!" campaign results (source: Google Adwords) Findings: The low number of searches/impressions for Varda and Maysles was surprising, as was the high rate (2x) of Wes Anderson searches vs PT Anderson and Soderbergh. And this was a week...
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8:32 AM
May 24, 2002
The greg.org "Damn you!" ad campaign on Google is just about half-over, and the results are rather interesting. (The launch is mentioned in this post.) The campaign appears on searches for the names of directors who inspired/influenced me, either stylistically...
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1:34 AM
May 23, 2002
The end of the month means a rush of festival submission deadlines. Today I shipped off entries for the Mill Valley Film Festival (in northern CA) and the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films (down south). Also in the...
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12:25 PM
One of the reasons I'd delayed submitting to some festivals was (of all things) my lack of a "director's photo (B/W)," which some festivals require. Last week, Roe Ethridge, a friend and artist whose work I've collected for three-plus years,...
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1:06 AM
May 22, 2002
Went to Columbia's commencement ceremonies yesterday and today. My wife walked through to receive her degree. Afterwards, we met astronomy professor to the stars, David Helfand (as seen on The Daily Show)....
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9:38 AM
Private screening has been set for Monday, June 3rd, in NYC. For those who expressed interest, look for email in a day or two as details gel. Stay tuned....
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6:14 AM
Monday we went to a screening of Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3, the fifth (and longest) of his five-film series. Richard Serra (co-)stars. Using Barney's favored medium, Vaseline, he re-enacts his Splash series (from 1968-70)--where he threw molted lead against...
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5:23 AM
J. Hoberman has the first review I've seen of Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch Drunk Love from Cannes. He calls it "the oddest entry so far, without a doubt." (Unfortunately, you have to read about Michael Moore before you get...
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4:18 AM
May 21, 2002
While surfing for Cannes reports, I found this great Indiewire interview with Abbas Kiarostami from the 2001 Double Take Documentary Film Festival, timed to the premiere of ABC Africa, his doc about AIDS in, well, Africa. Some highlights: The film...
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10:04 AM
May 20, 2002
Information architecture question continued from the last post: Using the content of the weblog itself as a starting point, I created the directory of films and directors I've referenced and turned it into a navigation tool. When I've only mentioned...
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7:00 AM
May 17, 2002
Be afraid. Be very afraid. "All twenty screens were showing Attack of the Clones at midnight..." As you can tell from the Google sitesearch function, I've been looking for weblogging tools to make the archives accessible in a more intelligent...
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4:01 AM
May 15, 2002
Went to an IFP24 Market orientation meeting tonight. This doesn't mean Souvenir's been selected for the market yet; it was a Q&A session for filmmakers hoping to participate in the Market. Here are the bullet points, primarily as they relate...
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11:30 AM
May 14, 2002
All that Adwords talk got me thinking, so I climbed in bed with Google myself (or went into the alley behind a dumpster with it, anyway). I launched a small campaign, titled "Damn you!" to promote the movie. In it,...
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4:46 AM
May 13, 2002
Submitted Souvenir November 2001 to the following festivals today: Locarno Int'l Film Festival Short Cuts Cologne Siena Int'l Short Film Festival...
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9:56 AM
Poetry using Google Adwords: One more non-traditional (at least by contemporary standards) medium for creative expression (besides ebay and amazon reviews, which I mentioned last week.) The difference with adwords, of course, is that it costs you money ($15/thousand views...
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9:42 AM
May 12, 2002
I was on a panel today at -scope, an art fair held here in NYC this weekend. Hoping to follow in the tradition of the Gramercy International Art Fair, which began in the mid 90's by filling the rooms of...
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10:14 AM
May 10, 2002
Just got back from the Tribeca Film Festival screening of The Director's Cut of Cinema Paradiso. What's the difference? Well, Giuseppe Tornatore originally released a 155-minute version of the film, which went unnoticed, then it got cut down to 123...
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2:04 AM
May 9, 2002
on the DC>NY amtrak: is a weblog like annoying conversations from the seats around you?...
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3:36 AM
Today: Picked up my bulk order of 20-minute VHS tapes Started duping screening copies of the movie (eight and counting, so far) Prepped entry packets for the Int'l Short Film Festival Berlin, the AFI Fest in LA, and the Mill...
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2:46 AM
May 6, 2002
For those who think weblogging is now too mainstream, there are alternative outlets for creative expression. Some, like Amazon reviews (of Ping, for instance, or the been-around-the-web-and-back Family Circus) are persistent. Others, like ebay auctions, are perishable. Follow the money,...
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10:57 AM
May 5, 2002
Ricci Albenda, an artist friend had a party to memorialize his installation at PS1, which will be taken down tomorrow (the installation, not PS1). I went early to see "The Short Century," Okwui Enwezor's extremely far-reaching show of contemporary African...
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12:34 PM
May 3, 2002
It's hardly ever a pleasure to read Orwell, or Christopher Hitchens, for that matter, but after you do, you're annoyed at how worthwhile you find it. (Unless, of course, you're a huge Henry Kissinger fan. Or Henry Kissinger.) To wit,...
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11:56 AM
Brought home a couple of video works to screen/consider by the artist Gabriel Orozco, and they're amazing. It's been about five minutes, and already I'm taken. The artist made five videos as part of Recordings and Drawings, a 1997 show...
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7:43 AM
May 1, 2002
that said, look up "albert maysles rides the bus" on google. Jussec, i gotta search this bus for filmic moments....
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6:11 AM
(in any case, riding the crosstown bus just got less boring. For me, anyway... )...
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6:05 AM
so now i can post to my web log from my cell phone. Can i be worth reading in...
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5:58 AM
