Ħames (five) is an experimental short film that explores Danny’s personal childhood memories that curiously leap from his mind to the screen from the distant past in disjointed flashes, exploring dark and poignant themes of death, loss and innocence through a child’s eyes.
Read more "Ħames (five) – Short Film"Before filming began I had to create my character’s costume; which took over a month to complete using a pain staking technique. This technique consisted of small-mirrored pieces of paper hand glued to a alter garment in overlapping rows. Although the costume was the longest part of the creation, I was completely thrilled with my […]
Read more "Ħames (Five): The Costume"Miley Cyrus: Tongue Tied (alternatively titled Miley) is an American short film directed by photographer Quentin Jones and starring recording artist Miley Cyrus. It was released on May 1, 2014 by the lifestyle website Nowness, although it had been previously used for the introduction of her headlining Bangerz Tour. The black-and-white video displays a topless Cyrus engaging in several sadomasochistic behaviors. Contemporary critics compared IT to […]
Read more "Research: MILEY by Quentin Jones"My Dad is 100 Years Old continues to demonstrate the iconoclastic attitude which keeps Maddin from achieving conventional levels of success. Making short films which are not the medium of choice for commercial cinema is odd enough, especially for an established filmmaker. Choosing to make it on a non-commercial filmmaker who voraciously renounced commercialism, Roberto Rossellini, […]
Read more "Research: Guy Maddin – My Dad is 100 Years Old"The Canadian director Guy Maddin is one of the more distinctive film stylists working today. In shorts and features, he has micro-obsessively recreated a film history that never was, a mélange of German Expressionism, film noir, and soapy melodramas, overlaid with naked Freudian angst and the grimy patina that makes it seem as if we’re […]
Read more "Research: Death and Childhood Hover Over Guy Maddin’s ‘My Winnipeg’"Hedwig and the Angry Inch‘, before it became a cult film along the lines of Rocky Horror, was a cabaret-style rock musical headed by John Cameron Mitchell, who initially eschewed traditional theatre venues in favour of performing, as Hedwig, in punk bars and drag clubs, before opening Off-Broadway in 1998. Frequently, the story is described […]
Read more "Research: Gender and Performance in ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’"THEORY AND DEFINITION OF STRUCTURAL/ MATERIALIST FILM *Excerpts from Peter Gidal’s introductory essay to theStructural Film Anthology, Published by the BFi in 1976. Structural/ Materialist film attempts to be non-illusionist. The process of the film’s making deals with devices that result in demystification or attempted demystification of the film process. But by ‘deals with’ I do […]
Read more "Research: THEORY AND DEFINITION OF STRUCTURAL/ MATERIALIST FILM"Few artists today have achieved the legendary status, notorious celebrity and sublime mastery of the cinema as Kenneth Anger (b. 1927), one of the greatest virtuoso filmmakers to emerge from the postwar American experimental film movement. Fueled by Anger’s polymath imagination, his visually dazzling films draw from an incredible range of sources – classical Hollywood, […]
Read more "Research: Kenneth Anger’s Magick Lantern Cycle"This Soundscape consists of my own sound recordings of various elements such as nature, voices, environmental noise and unusual items; these were be recorded using professional sound equipment. I developed the sounds out of context by manipulate them to create something unrecognisable, which alongside this hypnotic film, creating an immersive experience for the viewer. My […]
Read more "INTERIM SHOW: Midnightmare (Soundscape)"American composer John Cage, among history’s most influential artistic innovators, strove to broaden the definition of music and introduced chance operations into the compositional process. Even after his death, John Cage remains a controversial figure. Famously challenging the very notion of what music is, Cage remained on the leading edge of both playful and profound […]
Read more "Research: Avant-garde Composer John Cage"
DALIBEAR 