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Isabella Rosselini on her farm. In the first of a series on filmmakers and their relationship to the animal world, artist, director, writer and actress Amalia Ulman visits with actress, director (of the short film series Green Porno, among others), model and animal behaviorist Isabella Rossellini at her regenerative farm, Mama Farm.
“That Kid Running from the Fire”: Director Reinaldo ... - Filmmaker
Feb 15, 2024 · Green: Yeah, I was coming out of editing King Richard, and I received a script.At the time, I felt like, “I don’t know if I should even open this.” Like, “Is this real?” Filmmaker: Meaning, you didn’t know the status of the life rights? Green: I mean, I wanted it to be legit. Filmmaker: How did you go about vetting the material? Green: I …
The New Nostalgia of Touch: The Best Adult Erotic ... - Filmmaker
Feb 16, 2021 · Candy Flip and Theo Meow/Meow Meow – The Sad Girls of the Mountains . Only a few minutes into The Sad Girls of the Mountains (Die traurigen Mädchen aus den Bergen), I had the deliciously disoriented feeling of having pretty much no idea what I had gotten myself into. Sad Girls is a black comedy feminist mockumentary eviscerating the patriarchy, activism, public attitudes towards sex work ...
“Film Sets Are the Best Film School”: YouTubers-Turned
Jul 27, 2023 · Ventriloquist demons go viral in Talk To Me, the feature film debut of twin brothers and co-directors Danny and Michael Philippou.While the A24 horror venture marks their first official foray into feature filmmaking, the duo have been uploading action-packed videos onto their YouTube channel, RackaRacka, since 2013.Unlike Kyle Edward Ball, another YouTuber-turned-filmmaker whose chilling ...
“This Isn’t Just Any AI”: Director Pete Sillen on Bina48 and His ...
Jan 20, 2024 · Filmmaker: I think of you as someone who shoots, who has a relationship with subjects in the room, so it’s interesting that you basically made a heavily archival version of this film before you got to even shoot. Sillen: In the end, I’m a camera person. And with this, I kind of felt like I was making a film with a hand tied behind my back. In the end, this is probably 25% archival, which ...
The New You: Aaron Schimberg on A Different Man
Oct 15, 2024 · Filmmaker: Maybe subconsciously, did you have a different relationship with Sebastian when he was in prosthetics or wearing a mask on set versus when he didn’t have them on? Schimberg: I can’t say I had a different relationship with him, but I remember somebody saying, “Sebastian’s not a method actor, but when he …
Winter 2025 - Filmmaker Magazine
Hits & Misses 2024: Case Studies of Six Sundance 2024 Premieres. In September, Variety declared, “Indie Films Are Staging a Box Office Comeback,” touting the success of the films Longlegs, Thelma and Late Night with the Devil as signs of life for a segment of the industry “crushed by COVID, strikes and streaming,” as reporter Brent Lang wrote.
Daydreaming, Neuroscience and Screenwriting: The Imaginative …
Dec 15, 2022 · Course assignments include listening to specially created soundscapes in the dark and writing stories in response; viewing photographs that are structured and yet slightly surreal and, again, writing a story; keeping a dream journal written from bed upon awakening; and writing two screenplays based on the dream journals.
“It’s Disturbing to Me How Relevant They Are”: Gregg Araki on …
Sep 13, 2023 · Araki: The production designer of Nowhere, Patti Podesta, her background is in studio art and stuff, and a lot of her department were Cal Art students.So, there was a lot of art stuff going on, particularly in the production design. And the late, great, Thérèse DePrez did the production design of Doom Generation, and it was the same thing. It was the first time I’d ever had a production ...
21 Films to See at the 2024 New York Film Festival
With this year’s New York Film Festival underway, Filmmaker is recommending 18 films to watch over the course of the festival, which runs this year from September 27 through October 14. This year, our staff has covered several festivals— including TIFF, Venice, and Cannes,—whose premieres will be screening at NYFF during these upcoming weeks, some of which have previously been featured ...