A new film for everyone https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/t34892 Runboard| A new film for everyone en-us Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:11:42 +0000 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:11:42 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 Re: A new film for everyonehttps://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156808,from=rss#post156808https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156808,from=rss#post156808Finally watched your film on Vimeo and thoroughly enjoyed your creativity. Beautiful images in contrast with the intense music. I am not well versed in writing about films so I'm sorry for the brevity. I wish for you to continue to direct more personal works.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Ovader)Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:10:42 +0000 Re: A new film for everyonehttps://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156722,from=rss#post156722https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156722,from=rss#post156722Many thanks for the positive feedback for our film and our web pages. "Grizzly Man" is still making the rounds in the US, so it may be a little while before the DVD is released. http://www.wernerherzog.com might have updates about the film. Your preview looked amazing. It sort of reminds us of a cross between Jean Vigo's (and Boris Kaufmann's) "À Propos De Nice" and Reggio. But, of course, it's completely unique and wonderfully poetic! What an amazingly spiritual mood the film creates! How did you do the time lapse stuff? What Super8 camera and film stock did you use? Did you have to make any post-adjustments to the footage via your computer? And who did the wonderful music? Looking forward to seeing the whole work when its done!nondisclosed_email@example.com (questers)Sun, 09 Oct 2005 21:36:49 +0000 Re: A new film for everyonehttps://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156721,from=rss#post156721https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156721,from=rss#post156721btw: I love your new articles on Herzog and Ray, both the clean format of their presentation and the subject matter. Where can I get hold of that documentary 'The Grizzly Man'?nondisclosed_email@example.com (NPCoombs)Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:17:11 +0000 Re: A new film for everyonehttps://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156720,from=rss#post156720https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156720,from=rss#post156720thanks gregory and maria for posting that film, it has Sokoruvian light touch to it that seems different from your previous work. i also found the interplay between the domestic, suburban, natural and spiritual to work well.I am looking forward to seeing more of this style of filmmaking. To return the favour, below is a link to a very early batch of shots stitched together. Awful off the wall transfer quality but gives some idea of the aesthetic i am working towards. http://democratfilm.angeltowns.net/savpreview.htmlnondisclosed_email@example.com (NPCoombs)Fri, 07 Oct 2005 22:05:19 +0000 Re: A new film for everyonehttps://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156719,from=rss#post156719https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156719,from=rss#post156719Nice to hear that your new documentary is progressing. Fra Savonarola and his infamous "bonfire of the vanities" is a great subject for a film! Please keep us posted on its progress. As far as our work goes... at http://www.cinemaseekers.com/Day.html we've posted a link to a 4-minute short, which may or may not be in the final film (but it stands on its own just fine.) You'll also find a few stills there. Thanks for asking! Gregory and Maria Pearse nondisclosed_email@example.com (questers)Fri, 07 Oct 2005 03:06:32 +0000 Re: A new film for everyonehttps://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156718,from=rss#post156718https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156718,from=rss#post156718thank you maria and everyone for your comments..i am so glad that some people enjoyed and found meaning in the film...you do wonder sometimes... I am working on a new film now. No specific details as of yet but go to: http://democratfilm.angeltowns.net for updates and photos from production. Hopefully Gregory and Maria will give us some sneak preview of what they have been working on soon.nondisclosed_email@example.com (NPCoombs)Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:55:43 +0000 Re: A new film for everyonehttps://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156717,from=rss#post156717https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156717,from=rss#post156717I have been travelling and I finally have been able to see your film on a high speed connection. I found it to be beautiful, moving and other worldly in the best possible way. I also found the music to be a perfect balancing element for the visuals. Far from disturbing me the music drew me deeper into the film. Thank you for this work. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Maria Tarkovskaja)Tue, 04 Oct 2005 05:11:39 +0000 Re: A new film for everyonehttps://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156716,from=rss#post156716https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156716,from=rss#post156716Thank you Mr. Coombs for making this fine film available. I've posted a link to it on my modest website azure comments. Perhaps you could give more information on where this film could be available [email address?], as you'll see I've had some comment on it. Please keep up the good work - it's refreshing to find people focussing on the artistic instead of the commercial! nondisclosed_email@example.com (iainhamilton)Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:50:22 +0000 Re: A new film for everyonehttps://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156715,from=rss#post156715https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156715,from=rss#post156715My experiences watching the film. The whole thing was meditative. One part in particular stood out, when the music reached a climax at the time the lady looks out of the window and then went to the quieter section with figures standing in the river. To me the music sat a little inharmoniously with some of the scenes of nature, in the sense that it is had a strange tension to it that created an interesting experience. I thought the film was effective especially given the limitations of the small quicktime video on which I viewed it.nondisclosed_email@example.com (MarkNA)Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:30:30 +0000 Re: A new film for everyonehttps://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156714,from=rss#post156714https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156714,from=rss#post156714Nice short, for sure. My very first impression was that it might be something of a meditation on life, or that perhaps the older woman we see in the window represented Mother Earth peering on our loss of humanity. But towards the end I felt one was allowed viewing access into the unconsciousness of a ghost(for lack of a better word)or rather someone who has "crossed over". And the womam we see fade in and out in the begining watching the man wander, and the older woman in the window are one and the same and she is just watching over a lost lover perhaps. With the end sequence being their final meeting. For sure a meditation on life but not a general one, a very personal one.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Abbas Ibrahim)Thu, 28 Apr 2005 02:23:45 +0000 Re: A new film for everyonehttps://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156713,from=rss#post156713https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156713,from=rss#post156713No, it had nothing to do with the interplay with the images. It was just the music at the “beginning” of the film that made me nervous. Later on it’s better. I showed your film to a friend of mine and he had the same experience. He said the music at the beginning made him feel sick. Eventually he stopped watching because of the music. It was very strange. Normally I like repetitive music. Yes music is very subjective. I don’t know. Maybe other people will like it. But on the other hand I really loved the sound of thunder and the music on the iceskatingscene, but after that the music became too violent. I also loved the music on the last shot. And again the natural sounds of the river where great. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Chris Kelvin)Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:29:49 +0000 Something elsehttps://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156712,from=rss#post156712https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156712,from=rss#post156712I really admire this label, so although only very tangentally related to what this website and forum is for I felt like posting their manifesto. **** Constellation began releasing experimental rock music in Montreal in 1997, seeking to enact a mode of cultural production that critiques the worst tendencies of the music industry, artistic commodification, and perhaps in some tiny way, the world at large. We have attempted to evolve one possible model for the recovery of an independent music ethic, hoping to summon some real sense of indie rock in spite of its reduction to a branded slogan through corporate co-optation, its laissez-faire attitude towards the market and the means of production, and all the facile irony that helps pave the path for these content-negating trends. Together with the musicians who release records on the label, we have worked to rekindle a critical rock music cognisant of geography and social conditions; to reflect these concerns both musically and practically by building self-sufficient local structures for performing, recording and releasing work; to hold fast to the beautiful promise of independent rock as a perpetually nascent musical form capable of uncertain, unstable, unassimilable, untarnished transmissions. This is our 'post-rock' -- a term that must be construed politically in equal measure to its referencing of some diffuse 'instrumental' or 'deconstructed' musical aesthetic. 'Indie rock' was never a genre and its bastardisation as an aesthetic category was one of countless elegant corporate-intellectual coups during the 1990s. Sadly, all too many hipper-than-now taste-makers were happily complicit, ready to replace 'indie' with 'post' and thus help extinguish any abiding concern about the economies that ground and contextualise rock music. The world has not changed. Evil cowards rule the world and terror prevails on all sides. We go on mucking about with instruments and cardboard and test pressings and distribution deals in ways that we hope will avoid or at least minimise corruption of the work, all the while knowing our freedom to do so is soaked in the blood of innocents. Music means very very little in all of this, but if it can somehow speak to THIS, we humanise ourselves a little along the way.   nondisclosed_email@example.com (NPCoombs)Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:43:07 +0000 Re: A new film for everyonehttps://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156711,from=rss#post156711https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156711,from=rss#post156711Thanks Chris. The music is by Sandro Perri (Polmo Polpo)who was impressed with the film and has retrospectively given me permission to use the music. He is an artist from the legendary independent label Constellation Records, with such bands as Godspeed you Black Emperor, Silver Mt. Zion etc.. Bands with interesting instrumental combinations of classical and guitar music, and very politically active members. http://www.cstrecords.com/html/polmopolpo.html Music is very subjective. For one person a long drone can be just noise, to others it can hold a person in complete rapture. Is this what you meant by 'uncomfortable' or was it something deeper relating to the interplay with the images?nondisclosed_email@example.com (NPCoombs)Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:37:28 +0000 Re: A new film for everyonehttps://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156710,from=rss#post156710https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156710,from=rss#post156710A human being reflecting on his past/memories and creation around him. He is contemplating the world around him. The only thing that bothered me was the music. I felt really uncomfortable with it. Still it’s a daring film with some beautiful images. For someone with no actors and no budget,..... I found it impressive. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Chris Kelvin)Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:39:35 +0000 Re: A new film for everyonehttps://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156709,from=rss#post156709https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156709,from=rss#post156709Thank you for your support, I am glad you managed to find something in the film. A shame there are no other replies.nondisclosed_email@example.com (NPCoombs)Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:10:38 +0000 Re: A new film for everyonehttps://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156708,from=rss#post156708https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156708,from=rss#post156708First of all, we would like to thank you for your confidence in us and our site. This is definitely the right place for your kind of filmmaking, and we appreciate the courage it took for you to invite people to watch your film. Personally, we loved it. The cinematography was simply superb! It's hard to believe you shot it on video. The poetic narrative was right up our alley, and the use of personal photographs was also very appealing to us. We were particularly impressed by the last shot of the film (hopefully, nobody got pneumonia afterwards). To us the overall meaning of the film was: man observing Creation and contemplating his place in It. When we update our "Cinemaseekers Honor Roll" (which won't be for awhile), we'll definitely place your film on it. Congratulations and thank you for posting!   Cinemaseekersnondisclosed_email@example.com (questers)Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:27:09 +0000 A new film for everyonehttps://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156707,from=rss#post156707https://bcinemaseekersforum.runboard.com/p156707,from=rss#post156707It is with a sense of unease, uncertainty and hesitation that I type this message. I feel exposed: ready to be accused as a fake, a phoney, pretentious, a liar. Such is the anxiety of following your heart and emotions in filmmaking nowadays. I have learnt much from Cinema Seekers since a little heard of director called Andrei Tarkovsky changed my life. An internet search led to this site, and I more or less agree with the principles and passion of the webmasters. I have tried to put into practice those principles of poetic logic that the great directors choose, and who transformed cinema into a (potential) spiritual medium. I am still an amateur, with no budget, no actors no training and yet here is this enigma of a film I have created; I suspect more a mystery to me than anyone else. The internet is no place for watching films, unless you enjoy squashed frames and compression blotches, but here more than anywhere else I think I can find likeminded people to share this film with. Please take the time (16 minutes) to watch this (lights down, volume up) be patient, it is a 50MB file and if anyone can, please give me your opinions: what does this mean to you? http://democratfilm.angeltowns.net/winterwaterfilm.html yours sincerely, Nathan Preciado Coombsnondisclosed_email@example.com (NPCoombs)Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:45:30 +0000