(notes i make to myself. myself from yesterday).
The Santa Fe Film Fe Festival opens 2 – 6 December 2009.
“chasing KEINO” will screen at 8:00PM on 2 December at the Jean Cocteau Theatre and again on 6 December at 12:15PM at the New Mexico History Museum. Please stop by if you are in the Santa Fe area or visit www.santafefilmfestival.com.
A huge Thanks You to anyone who helped, looked at, made suggestions regarding this film! Very much appreciated! Many Thanks!
No one is required to be a genius, but everyone is required to participate. – Phillipe Starck
The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. – Ancient Kenyan Proverb, Anonymous
Just as I suspected – traunched out. The English painter, Francis Bacon, once said: “I’m horribly excited”. To which, David Sylvester asked: “Horribly excited about what, Francis”? Bacon replied: “I’m horribly excited about nothing”. So much for existentialism… I painted four Picasso’s after I’d seen the Julian Schnabel Picasso re-make over the mantle in the Grammercy Park Hotel in NYC. Just felt like posting two of them. No purpose.
There is something eerily beautiful about the lighting thrown-off at a late night gas station. Sort of Kubrickesque.
Intellektuelle redlichkeit.
Ciao, bellas!
Thanks Jolie for coming out and handling sound and cameras.
Let’s choose this one and be done with it. Right, Christian?
I kept trying to plant the audio from the “Christian Bale On-Set-Blow-Up-Rant” that made the rounds not long ago into this post – but couldn’t get the audio formatting right. It is in the spirit of that rant, that I present these film posters… Very Frustrating.
I saw the German film “Baader-Meinhof Komplex” yesterday. There was a scene in which a group of the RAF kill a German cabinet Minister in his home. As they are leaving the voice-over says: “…the Minister had no problem sending countless soldiers to their deaths in wars – but was dumbfounded when confronted with the reality of his own death.” Ironical. An interesting film chronicling a very torn period in US and European history.
This was the book of photographs that Astrid Proll published in 1998 on the RAF. Originally, the book was entitled “Photos on the Run: 1967 – 1977”. A friend had given me an original hardbound copy when I lived in Sun Valley, ID. After the World Trade Center was attacked – I threw the book away in disgust. To find the same original copy today, if you can locate it in Germany, will cost you $300USD large. It has, however, been published again. Oddly, this newer publication is entitled “Hans und Grete”, which forced a reacquaintance with “Hansel and Gretel”, the mediaeval tale by the Brothers Grimm. I had forgotten about that fairy tale – but to describe it as Grimm is to undercook the story. Very creepy. It seems, in retrospect, that it should be reconsidered as a kid’s tale.
I read that Jim Jarmusch when filming, “Ghost Dog”, asked Disney if he could use some of Disney’s cartoon footage in his film. Disney declined, saying that they didn’t want their cartoons shown in a violent context. Jarmusch’s counterpoint was – cartoons have more violence in them than most films… Ironical. And to that end – we shall say – Good Morrow.
I was beginning to worry for a moment that the only places that could appreciate the Kenyans were foreign countries. It’s really incredible having it screen in Santa Fe.
OK. So, checklist:
A. You get to film in Santa Fe, NM,
B. you get to use great industry personnel,
C. you get a 25% production cost rebate,
D. the rebate is addressed in a timely manner, and
E. your film gets selected for screening at the Santa Fe Film Festival.
There’s not much left to wish for I’m afraid.
Thanks again to everyone that helped make it happen.