Colombia-set drama will play throughout country in string of engagements across multiple cities.
Neon has set April 1 as the start of its “cinemas only…forever” US tour for Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria starring Tilda Swinton.
The film will play throughout the country in a continuous string of more than 100 week-long engagements across multiple cities each week in arthouse cinemas and non-traditional venues like pop-up drive-ins, museums, art galleries, university screenings and outdoor events
Memoria premiered at Cannes last year and won the jury prize. It went on to become Colombia’s Oscar submission and was produced by Weerasethakul, Diana Bustamante,...
Neon has set April 1 as the start of its “cinemas only…forever” US tour for Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria starring Tilda Swinton.
The film will play throughout the country in a continuous string of more than 100 week-long engagements across multiple cities each week in arthouse cinemas and non-traditional venues like pop-up drive-ins, museums, art galleries, university screenings and outdoor events
Memoria premiered at Cannes last year and won the jury prize. It went on to become Colombia’s Oscar submission and was produced by Weerasethakul, Diana Bustamante,...
- 3/10/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Indie distributor and SVOD service Mubi is continuing its remarkable buying spree at Cannes 2021. The growing player has now taken rights from The Match Factory to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cannes Competition drama Memoria for Germany, Italy, Latin America and India.
Palme d’Or winner Weerasethakul is debuting his latest drama on the Croisette today. Tilda Swinton stars in the movie as Jessica a woman who travels from Scotland to Bogotá to visit her sister. Ever since being startled by a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, she is unable to sleep. However, during her journey she befriends Agnes (Jeanne Balibar), an archaeologist studying human remains discovered within a tunnel under construction, and a fish scaler, Hernan (Elkin Diaz). As the day comes to a close, she is awakened to a sense of clarity.
Weerasethakul’s ninth feature is his first shoot outside his native Thailand.
Palme d’Or winner Weerasethakul is debuting his latest drama on the Croisette today. Tilda Swinton stars in the movie as Jessica a woman who travels from Scotland to Bogotá to visit her sister. Ever since being startled by a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, she is unable to sleep. However, during her journey she befriends Agnes (Jeanne Balibar), an archaeologist studying human remains discovered within a tunnel under construction, and a fish scaler, Hernan (Elkin Diaz). As the day comes to a close, she is awakened to a sense of clarity.
Weerasethakul’s ninth feature is his first shoot outside his native Thailand.
- 7/15/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Memoria
Produced by Diana Bustamante, Julio Chavezmontes, Charles de Meaux, Simon Field, Keith Griffiths, Michael Weber
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Written by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Jeanne Balibar, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Juan Pablo Urregom, Elkin Díaz
Cinematographer: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
Release Date/Prediction: Thai Joe will attempt to win the Palme d’Or again in Cannes Film Festival’s Main Comp.
…...
Produced by Diana Bustamante, Julio Chavezmontes, Charles de Meaux, Simon Field, Keith Griffiths, Michael Weber
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Written by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Jeanne Balibar, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Juan Pablo Urregom, Elkin Díaz
Cinematographer: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
Release Date/Prediction: Thai Joe will attempt to win the Palme d’Or again in Cannes Film Festival’s Main Comp.
…...
- 1/11/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Beijing-based Rediance also co-financing Miguel Gomes’ Savagery.
Beijing-based Rediance, which launched a film financing arm at Cannes last year, has boarded Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria and Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes’ Savagery as co-financier.
Memoria stars Tilda Swinton and Jeanne Balibar and is scheduled to start shooting in Colombia in August. The producers on the film include Kick the Machine, Burning Blue and Keith Griffiths and Simon Field’s Illuminations Films. Chinese producer Maxx Tsai is also backing the film.
Gomes’ Savagery is based on Euclides da Cunha’s Backlands, The Canudos Campaign, a non-fiction account of the war...
Beijing-based Rediance, which launched a film financing arm at Cannes last year, has boarded Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria and Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes’ Savagery as co-financier.
Memoria stars Tilda Swinton and Jeanne Balibar and is scheduled to start shooting in Colombia in August. The producers on the film include Kick the Machine, Burning Blue and Keith Griffiths and Simon Field’s Illuminations Films. Chinese producer Maxx Tsai is also backing the film.
Gomes’ Savagery is based on Euclides da Cunha’s Backlands, The Canudos Campaign, a non-fiction account of the war...
- 5/17/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Beijing-based Rediance also co-financing Miguel Gomes’ Savagery.
Beijing-based Rediance, which launched a film financing arm at Cannes last year, has boarded Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria and Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes’ Savagery as co-financier.
Memoria stars Tilda Swinton and Jeanne Balibar and is scheduled to start shooting in Colombia in August. The producers on the film include Kick the Machine, Burning Blue and Keith Griffiths and Simon Field’s Illuminations Films. Chinese producer Maxx Tsai is also backing the film.
Gomes’ Savagery is based on Euclides da Cunha’s Backlands, The Canudos Campaign, a non-fiction account of the war...
Beijing-based Rediance, which launched a film financing arm at Cannes last year, has boarded Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria and Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes’ Savagery as co-financier.
Memoria stars Tilda Swinton and Jeanne Balibar and is scheduled to start shooting in Colombia in August. The producers on the film include Kick the Machine, Burning Blue and Keith Griffiths and Simon Field’s Illuminations Films. Chinese producer Maxx Tsai is also backing the film.
Gomes’ Savagery is based on Euclides da Cunha’s Backlands, The Canudos Campaign, a non-fiction account of the war...
- 5/17/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
If you are a fan of traditional stop-motion animation, there’s a good chance you’ve seen some of the delightfully bizarre work of the Quay brothers. Stephen and Timothy, identical twins from Philadelphia, made their mark after directing several breathtaking animated shorts in Europe, creating disturbing worlds inhabited by decaying, hand-made puppets that often reference esoteric works of literature, music, and art. Unmistakable in their idiosyncratic visions, their unique style became a staple in art house cinema and influenced a generation of filmmakers and animators. While much of their work was difficult to find outside the festival circuit or the occasional museum retrospective, that’s changed with a new, pristine Blu-ray release of their collected shorts distributed by Zeitgeist films.
Featuring their breakthrough film Street of Crocodiles, a collection of their MTV-commissioned shorts Stille Nacht, and their most recent works, Through The Weeping Glass and Unmistaken Hands, as well as many more,...
Featuring their breakthrough film Street of Crocodiles, a collection of their MTV-commissioned shorts Stille Nacht, and their most recent works, Through The Weeping Glass and Unmistaken Hands, as well as many more,...
- 12/1/2015
- by Raffi Asdourian
- The Film Stage
Asia Pacific prizes also awarded to Hany Abu-Assad for The Idol, Alexey German Jr for Under Electric Clouds and cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing for The Assassin.Scroll down for full list of winners
Cemetery of Splendour, by Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul, has won best feature film at the 9th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) in Australia.
The Thai-language drama, which debuted at Cannes, centres on a middle-aged woman who experiences strange visions while tending a soldier with sleeping sickness.
The awards, announced at a ceremony at Brisbane’s City Hall, saw films honoured from Thailand, Russia, Turkey, China, Japan, Palestine, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Australia.
The Apsa Unesco Award for outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through film was awarded to Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad for The Idol, which debuted at Toronto.
Speaking from the set of his latest production, the director said of the award: “Thank you dear jury for this great...
Cemetery of Splendour, by Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul, has won best feature film at the 9th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) in Australia.
The Thai-language drama, which debuted at Cannes, centres on a middle-aged woman who experiences strange visions while tending a soldier with sleeping sickness.
The awards, announced at a ceremony at Brisbane’s City Hall, saw films honoured from Thailand, Russia, Turkey, China, Japan, Palestine, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Australia.
The Apsa Unesco Award for outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through film was awarded to Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad for The Idol, which debuted at Toronto.
Speaking from the set of his latest production, the director said of the award: “Thank you dear jury for this great...
- 11/26/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Feature is based on Orhan Pamuk’s novel The Museum Of Innocence.
Janine Marmot’s Hot Property Film is readying Grant Gee-directed Innocence Of Memories and is set to unveil the film at an autumn festival.
The Match Factory is handling sales of the feature, based on Orhan Pamuk’s acclaimed book, The Museum Of Innocence.
Marmot confirmed that Italian distribution rights have now gone to the film’s co-producers, In Between Art Film and Vivo Film.
Producing alongside Marmot is Keith Griffiths of Illuminations Films.
Nobel Prize winner Pamuk has provided original narration for the film, which is in the final stages of completion. Pamuk also appears on screen. The film was shot entirely in Istanbul.
Gee is best known for directing music videos for the likes of Radiohead and Blur.
Brand New-u
Marmot will be at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) this weekend for the world premiere of Simon Pummell’s Brand New-u.
“This...
Janine Marmot’s Hot Property Film is readying Grant Gee-directed Innocence Of Memories and is set to unveil the film at an autumn festival.
The Match Factory is handling sales of the feature, based on Orhan Pamuk’s acclaimed book, The Museum Of Innocence.
Marmot confirmed that Italian distribution rights have now gone to the film’s co-producers, In Between Art Film and Vivo Film.
Producing alongside Marmot is Keith Griffiths of Illuminations Films.
Nobel Prize winner Pamuk has provided original narration for the film, which is in the final stages of completion. Pamuk also appears on screen. The film was shot entirely in Istanbul.
Gee is best known for directing music videos for the likes of Radiohead and Blur.
Brand New-u
Marmot will be at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) this weekend for the world premiere of Simon Pummell’s Brand New-u.
“This...
- 6/18/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Love in Khon Kaen
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul // Writer: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Though he premiered a medium length film at Cannes 2012, Mekong Hotel, Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul hasn’t debuted a feature length since his 2010 Palme d’Or winning Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. His latest, Love in the Khon Kaen (formerly known as a project called Cemetery of Kings) promises to be another mystical enigma from the provocative director, described as a film about a lonesome middle-age housewife who tends a soldier with sleeping sickness and falls into a hallucination that triggers strange dreams, phantoms, and romance. Weersethakul collaborates once more with familiar castmembers, including Jenjira Pongpas (Boonmee; Syndromes and a Century) and Banlop Lomnoi (Tropical Malady).
Cast: Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi
Producers: Kick the Machine Films’ Simon Field (Mekong Hotel), Illumination Films’ Keith Griffiths (Berberian Sound Studio)
U.S. Distributor: Rights available
Release Date: Apparently in post-production,...
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul // Writer: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Though he premiered a medium length film at Cannes 2012, Mekong Hotel, Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul hasn’t debuted a feature length since his 2010 Palme d’Or winning Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. His latest, Love in the Khon Kaen (formerly known as a project called Cemetery of Kings) promises to be another mystical enigma from the provocative director, described as a film about a lonesome middle-age housewife who tends a soldier with sleeping sickness and falls into a hallucination that triggers strange dreams, phantoms, and romance. Weersethakul collaborates once more with familiar castmembers, including Jenjira Pongpas (Boonmee; Syndromes and a Century) and Banlop Lomnoi (Tropical Malady).
Cast: Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi
Producers: Kick the Machine Films’ Simon Field (Mekong Hotel), Illumination Films’ Keith Griffiths (Berberian Sound Studio)
U.S. Distributor: Rights available
Release Date: Apparently in post-production,...
- 1/7/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Cemetery of Kings
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Writer: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Producers: Simon Field, Keith Griffiths, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Jenjira Widner, Banlop
It surprisingly takes an international film community (coin coming from several sources) to keep Palme d’Or winner Thai Joe (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) in business of feature filmmaking but it takes very little to motivate him as an artist: his generous output is visible in art installations, short films, to medium-sized items such as Mekong Hotel. While this appears to raid from his chest of films from his last decade and certainly brings a vague sense of familiarity with performance, obsessions, and use of physical borders, Cemetery of Kings might be the last of film to come out of a certain comfort zone.
Gist: A small town in Thailand, twenty-seven soldiers come down with a strange case of sleeping sickness.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Writer: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Producers: Simon Field, Keith Griffiths, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Jenjira Widner, Banlop
It surprisingly takes an international film community (coin coming from several sources) to keep Palme d’Or winner Thai Joe (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) in business of feature filmmaking but it takes very little to motivate him as an artist: his generous output is visible in art installations, short films, to medium-sized items such as Mekong Hotel. While this appears to raid from his chest of films from his last decade and certainly brings a vague sense of familiarity with performance, obsessions, and use of physical borders, Cemetery of Kings might be the last of film to come out of a certain comfort zone.
Gist: A small town in Thailand, twenty-seven soldiers come down with a strange case of sleeping sickness.
- 2/14/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Peter Strickland’s British horror deconstruction Berberian Sound Studio opened yesterday in a crowded field of fifteen new releases, but if graphic design was all it took to get people into theaters Bss should be way ahead of the field. The startling grayscale collage of the Us one sheet was designed by the suddenly prolific Brandon Schaefer who, as IFC Films’ new house designer, has designed two of my other favorite posters of the year so far, for Simon Killer and Gimme the Loot. He has also started giving me a run for my money writing about movie posters for Film.com. I particularly like his introduction about his personal design education, his process piece about Simon Killer, and his rant against the facile nature of fan art minimalism (though I do think there he omits giving praise where praise is occasionally due).
Berberian Sound Studio is a mysterious and...
Berberian Sound Studio is a mysterious and...
- 6/15/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Peter Strickland's thriller about a home counties sound engineer hired by a 70s Italian horror studio is one of the films of the year
One of the most remarkable British movies of the past couple of years, Berberian Sound Studio is a psychological thriller set entirely in the Kafkaesque offices of a sleazy Italian film company in the 1970s. It brings together a gifted trio of independent British film-makers: producer Keith Griffiths, who has been behind a dozen or more daring, offbeat pictures, including most recently the Cannes Palme d'Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives; the cinematographer Nic Knowland, whose numerous credits since the late 1970s include Tony Palmer's Shostakovich biography Testimony and the Quay brothers' Institute Benjamenta; and writer-director Peter Strickland, a truly European director who made his feature debut in Hungary three years ago with Katalin Varga.
The low-budget Katalin Varga,...
One of the most remarkable British movies of the past couple of years, Berberian Sound Studio is a psychological thriller set entirely in the Kafkaesque offices of a sleazy Italian film company in the 1970s. It brings together a gifted trio of independent British film-makers: producer Keith Griffiths, who has been behind a dozen or more daring, offbeat pictures, including most recently the Cannes Palme d'Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives; the cinematographer Nic Knowland, whose numerous credits since the late 1970s include Tony Palmer's Shostakovich biography Testimony and the Quay brothers' Institute Benjamenta; and writer-director Peter Strickland, a truly European director who made his feature debut in Hungary three years ago with Katalin Varga.
The low-budget Katalin Varga,...
- 9/1/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Pre-Toronto film festival acquisitions are flying Friday, with first Sony Pictures Classics picking up Robert Redford’s “The Company You Keep” and now IFC Midnight grabbing U.S. rights to “Berberian Sound Studio.” A psychological horror film from writer-director Peter Strickland, “Berberian Sound Studio” recently screened at the Locarno and Edinburgh fests (read Eric Kohn’s review here) and will go on to play at Toronto and the New York Film Festival. Toby Jones stars in the film as a British sound engineer who takes a job working on an Italian horror movie in 1976 and begins to lose his grip on sanity. Read More: Toby Jones On Choosing Roles, Avoiding Hollywood and the Crisis of Global Politics Keith Griffiths and Mary Burke produced the project; Robin Gutch, Katherine Butler and Hugo Heppel are executive producers. The Illuminations Films / Warp X production was co-developed and co-financed by Film4 & UK Film Council.
- 8/24/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
#35. Berberian Sound Studio Director/Writer: Peter StricklandProducers: Mary Burke (Submarine), Illuminations Films' Simon Field and Keith Griffiths (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives)Distributor: Rights Available (Match Factory) The Gist: Berberian Sound Studio is one of the cheapest, sleaziest post-production studios in Italy. Only the most sordid horror films have their sound processed and sharpened in this studio. Gilderoy (Toby Jones), a shy and nondescript sound engineer from the UK is hired to mix the latest giallo film by horror maestro, Santini (Antonio Mancino) and he soon finds himself caught up in a forbidding world of bitter actors, capricious foley artists and confounding bureaucracy...(more) Cast: Toby Jones toplines. List Worthy Reasons...: The Silver Bear (2009 Berlin Film Festival) and The European Film Academy's Discovery of the Year award winning Katalin Varga announced that the arrival of helmer Peter Strickland. I have a penchant for films about...
- 1/7/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
Toby Jones is set to star in Berberian Sound Studio . You might recognize this actor from his work in Captain America: The First Avenger (as Arnim Zola) or as the bad-ass grocery store clerk in The Mist . Jones will play a sound engineer whose work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art. Peter Strickland will direct from his own script. Mary Burke ( Submarine ), Simon Field and Keith Griffiths are producing. Here's a lengthy synopsis - this could be a good one, we'll keep our eyes out for more on the film: 1976: Berberian Sound Studio is one of the cheapest, sleaziest post-production studios in Italy. Only the most sordid horror films have their sound processed and sharpened in this studio. Gilderoy, a naive and introverted sound...
- 10/27/2011
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Peter Strickland, the Efa's Discovery of the Year award in 2009 and Silver Bear (Berlin Film Fest) winning director for Katalin Varga, has began shooting his sophomore project in London and not Italy as some wad been reporting. Toplined by Toby Jones who finds himself in the engineer's chair, Berberian Sound Studio is going to be a hot title for 2012 as it is being produced by some interesting names in Keith Griffiths (he works with Thai Joe) and Mary Burke (who is coming off the extremely popular festival title, Submarine). Hans Geissendoerfer is co-producing alongside Film4’s Katherine Butler, Warp X's Robin Gutch and Screen Yorkshire’s Hugo Heppell are serving as executive producers. Gist: Berberian Sound Studio is one of the cheapest, sleaziest post-production studios in Italy. Only the most sordid horror films have their sound processed and sharpened in this studio. Gilderoy (Jones), a shy and nondescript sound...
- 3/25/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Cannes Countdown: 16 Days: The Match Factory'sUncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
aka Lung Boonmee Raluek Chat
The Match Factory is one of the most dynamic and important international sales agents. To learn how international independent coproductions of the festival type film get made, you need to know origins of The Match Factory itself. Founder Karl Baumgartner is The Maestro of International Coproduction. He has been producing since 1991 and has at least two production companies, one of which is Pandora which goes back as a German distribution company to the 1950s and which with partner Reinhard Brundig is a partner in The Match Factory. In 1963 Baumie, as he is known to his friends, prebought Jarmisch's Down By Law which immediately put both Jarmisch and his producer Jim Stark into international play. Beside their slate of current films, they represent the entire library of Aki Kaurismäki.
Cofounder and partner, Michael Weber...
aka Lung Boonmee Raluek Chat
The Match Factory is one of the most dynamic and important international sales agents. To learn how international independent coproductions of the festival type film get made, you need to know origins of The Match Factory itself. Founder Karl Baumgartner is The Maestro of International Coproduction. He has been producing since 1991 and has at least two production companies, one of which is Pandora which goes back as a German distribution company to the 1950s and which with partner Reinhard Brundig is a partner in The Match Factory. In 1963 Baumie, as he is known to his friends, prebought Jarmisch's Down By Law which immediately put both Jarmisch and his producer Jim Stark into international play. Beside their slate of current films, they represent the entire library of Aki Kaurismäki.
Cofounder and partner, Michael Weber...
- 5/2/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Yeah, long title, but let’s write it once again, so we could start the story about this movie. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is an upcoming Thai sensitive drama, directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Of course, we are here to have a little chat about it, since this film is also scheduled to compete at the Cannes Film Festival 2010 for the Palme d’Or.
Here’s the official synopsis part says: “Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form.
Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave – the birthplace of his first life…...
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Of course, we are here to have a little chat about it, since this film is also scheduled to compete at the Cannes Film Festival 2010 for the Palme d’Or.
Here’s the official synopsis part says: “Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form.
Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave – the birthplace of his first life…...
- 4/28/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Without a good sound mix horror, more than any other genre, would be far less effective. Imagine movies like The Blair Witch Project or Paranormal Activity without their children laughing or things going bump in the night. A good mix makes all the difference, I tell ya! It seems only natural that a horror movie based upon time spent mixing various sounds would come out sooner or later.
According to Screen Daily multi award-winning director Peter Strickland is plotting a new Italy-set horror film. The project, called Berberian Sound Studio, is being made through the UK’s Illuminations Films and digital film studio Warp X. Illuminations’ Keith Griffiths and Simon Field, along with Peter Carlton and Robin Gutch from Warp, are producing the film. The Italian and English-language film is due to shoot later this year.
The film will follow an English sound engineer who goes to work in an...
According to Screen Daily multi award-winning director Peter Strickland is plotting a new Italy-set horror film. The project, called Berberian Sound Studio, is being made through the UK’s Illuminations Films and digital film studio Warp X. Illuminations’ Keith Griffiths and Simon Field, along with Peter Carlton and Robin Gutch from Warp, are producing the film. The Italian and English-language film is due to shoot later this year.
The film will follow an English sound engineer who goes to work in an...
- 2/16/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
By R. Emmet Sweeney
Guy Maddin is a hoarder of uncanny images, from the candy-colored Alpine tableaus of "Careful" to the frozen horse heads of last year's "My Winnipeg." A commission from the Rotterdam Film Festival centers around another: Isabella Rossellini blasted out of an electric chair. It's the basis for his new short film, "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair," part of the Urban Screens series at the festival, which is projecting three works onto office buildings throughout the city. It's an archetypal Maddin film, conflating sex, death and film history in a manic seven minutes. I spoke with him at the festival about the new work, collage parties, Thomas Edison and the hazards of Dutch public transit.
How did you get this assignment, and how did you conceive it?
I was approached by the producers Keith Griffiths and Simon Field, who are both friends of mine. They just...
Guy Maddin is a hoarder of uncanny images, from the candy-colored Alpine tableaus of "Careful" to the frozen horse heads of last year's "My Winnipeg." A commission from the Rotterdam Film Festival centers around another: Isabella Rossellini blasted out of an electric chair. It's the basis for his new short film, "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair," part of the Urban Screens series at the festival, which is projecting three works onto office buildings throughout the city. It's an archetypal Maddin film, conflating sex, death and film history in a manic seven minutes. I spoke with him at the festival about the new work, collage parties, Thomas Edison and the hazards of Dutch public transit.
How did you get this assignment, and how did you conceive it?
I was approached by the producers Keith Griffiths and Simon Field, who are both friends of mine. They just...
- 1/30/2009
- by R. Emmet Sweeney
- ifc.com
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