The “Annie Hall Moment” familiar to anyone who’s been in a University too long!
Easily the most memorable part of that movie.
This is a quick little teaser I did while in the peak of my film noir phase a few years ago. It simply aims to set up a noir atmosphere, but I stumbled across it the other day and was pleasantly surprised by the visual aesthetic I was able to come up with, too.
The monologue, as my most devoted fans will know, ultimately got tweaked and used in Last Night in Noir, the first video project I worked on (with Ajay Bhandari). If you haven’t already, you can watch all 4 mins here.
- O:
- Hey, you know how weird things are said to happen on nights with full moons?
- T:
- Sure do. The moon's full tonight, isn't it?
- O:
- Yup. Hey, I just saw Dogtooth (2009). That movie is without a doubt the strangest, most oddball fucked-up can't-look-away-from-the-screen-it's-so-weird feature film you could ever imagine seeing, and it's certainly the weirdest I've seen in my life.
- T:
- Cool. I heard it got an Oscar nom. I'll go see it at the Plaza next Friday.
- O:
- You're so cool.
Home Movie Day 2010
Calgary’s Third Annual Home Movie Day
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Memorial Park Library
1221 2nd Street SW
Haven’t watched your home movies in years?
Don’t let your films decay, bring them to Home Movie Day!
12-2 pm - film inspection and check in
2-4 pm - screening of home movies
A film archivist will assess the quality of your film to see it they can be put through a projector without causing damage.
You will be able to view their Super 8, 8mm, or 16mm films for the first time in years using proper projecting equipment.
Learn how to care for and extend the life of your films.
Home Movie Day is free and open to the public. Members of the public are invited to bring in their films or just come to watch and enjoy the films with an enthusiastic audience in a day-long celebration of amateur filmmaking and home movie preservation.
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More info about HMD is available at http://www.homemovieday.com/
Or contact Sheena Manabat at srmanaba@ucalgary.ca
Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Calgary.
Community Sponsors: Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers, The Plaza Theatre, and Bird Dog Video.
COOOL. So if anyone knows anyone (parents, grandparents) who have any of these formats they should definitely bring them in for popcorn, home movies, and good times!!
I’m helping out with this so I definitely encourage everyone to come along too! Even if you don’t have your own films, it’s a hella fun time—there’s tons of free popcorn and cool people, and it gives you an interesting perspective on times past compared to how we deal with things now.
So these are the movies I definitely have tickets to so far. You should get one too and come join me so I’m not that guy sitting alone wishing my friends were more into obscure films.
I’m volunteering Monday (FUBAR), Tuesday (Howl) and Thursday evenings at the Plaza—so come say hi if you happen to be there too.
Finally, despite my thinking the line-up at CIFF this year kinda sucks—I couldn’t even make it through most of the synopses because too often the films just sounded so damn conventional (…character drama! …European drama!! …FAMILY drama!!! fuck)—I’m supporting it for the film-ishness alone. Hopefully CIFF doesn’t continue this descent into narrative-Hollywoodism in future years…
As much as it replaces my sleep with stress, I fucking love filmmaking.
Here’s a few stills from today’s two shoots, courtesy of whoever was holding the camera! (at various points: Stephanie Dawn Murray, Sheena Manabat, Jesse Collin, John Chau). You should also check out the extended album on Facebook. (And I have tons more that I’ll eventually upload too.)
