Although I’ve been a fan of stop-motion for years, the craft and artistry that goes into this particular animation technique continue to be a source of amazement for me. The tactile nature of the puppets, sets and props, combined with the attention and time that goes into it, means that when a director gets it right, they can be some of the most exciting works in the short film arena. Case in point: Joseph Wallace’s new film Salvation Has No Name, which not only made it to the elite cohort of short films on this year’s BAFTA longlist but also did the same for the 2022 BIFAs. A modern epic sporting a timeless aesthetic, Wallace returns to Dn with his most ambitious work yet, a film that was years in the making, but well worth the wait.
Welcome back to Directors Notes Joseph, let’s start with things off nice and simple,...
Welcome back to Directors Notes Joseph, let’s start with things off nice and simple,...
- 6/20/2023
- by Rob Munday
- Directors Notes
Deal Park, NJ — Axelrod Contemporary Ballet Theater (Axcbt), the Jersey Shore’s professional ballet company, will present a one-night-only special event, “Architects of Dance,” featuring the Company in choreography by some of the greatest modern dancers of our time who will also perform on the program, on Thursday, May 18, 2023, at 7:30 p.m., in the Atrium at Bell Works Studio in Holmdel, New Jersey. The evening will include a pre-performance reception at 5:30 p.m., followed by a private VIP tour of Bell Works led by Lead Designer and Creative Designer Paola Zamudio beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tickets for the performance are $25 general admission or $75 for the VIP experience, including the performance, tour and reception. Tickets are available at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center Box Office.
Inspired by the Bauhaus architectural movement, Axcbt Artistic Director Gabriel Chajnik conceived of “Architects of Dance” to illustrate how choreography and architecture can influence each other.
Inspired by the Bauhaus architectural movement, Axcbt Artistic Director Gabriel Chajnik conceived of “Architects of Dance” to illustrate how choreography and architecture can influence each other.
- 5/10/2023
- by Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Building empathy through imagery, Ken August Myer’s documentary self-portrait Angel Applicant follows the filmmaker-subject as he attempts making sense of his own medical condition through the work of the late Swiss-German modern artist and Bauhaus faculty member Paul Klee. Framed in quasi-chapters, starting with Klee’s 1934 “Little blue-handed Man,” the Portland, Oregon-based art director at Wieden + Kennedy introduces his first symptoms. One day his hands suddenly freeze up before swelling like boiled hot dogs. Healthy until this point he’s taken to see a rheumatologist by his mother (who also recorded the diagnosis on a cassette tape), we find out Ken has the rare autoimmune disease scleroderma, which essentially sets his immune system into a hyper-defense mode practically squeezing his body, leading to the hardening of skin and the gastro-track, making bodily functions (e.g. breathing) extremely painful.
When we first meet Ken he’s frail but optimistic,...
When we first meet Ken he’s frail but optimistic,...
- 3/27/2023
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Audience Awards voting concludes on March 19.
Raging Grace has taken the 2023 SXSW Narrative Feature Competition award and Angel Applicant has taken top prize in the Documentary Feature Competition.
15 acquisition titles to tempt buyers at SXSW 2023
Raging Grace director Paris Zarcilla’s film about an undocumented Filipina house cleaner and her daughter who find work for a wealthy British man was praised by the jury for “cleverly employing genre tropes to explore vast socio-political matters”.
Courtney Eaton won the special jury award for performance for her role in Parachute, Brittany Snow’s feature directorial debut about a young woman freshly out...
Raging Grace has taken the 2023 SXSW Narrative Feature Competition award and Angel Applicant has taken top prize in the Documentary Feature Competition.
15 acquisition titles to tempt buyers at SXSW 2023
Raging Grace director Paris Zarcilla’s film about an undocumented Filipina house cleaner and her daughter who find work for a wealthy British man was praised by the jury for “cleverly employing genre tropes to explore vast socio-political matters”.
Courtney Eaton won the special jury award for performance for her role in Parachute, Brittany Snow’s feature directorial debut about a young woman freshly out...
- 3/15/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Early on in his highly personal documentary, filmmaker Ken August Meyer presents an intense close-up of his face staring directly into the camera. “I’m happy to be here to share this story. I’m Ken,” he says by way of introduction. “It’s nice to meet you. And don’t worry, it’s not contagious.”
What he’s referring to is the condition afflicting him, systemic scleroderma. It’s a life-threatening autoimmune disease that attacks the body’s connective tissues and internal organs, and there is no cure. His chronicling of the disease’s progression, and his finding comfort in the later artworks of Paul Klee, who suffered from the same condition — although it wasn’t diagnosed until after his death — forms the heart of the moving Angel Applicant, receiving its world premiere at SXSW (where it snagged the top doc prize).
Meyer worked for more than a decade...
What he’s referring to is the condition afflicting him, systemic scleroderma. It’s a life-threatening autoimmune disease that attacks the body’s connective tissues and internal organs, and there is no cure. His chronicling of the disease’s progression, and his finding comfort in the later artworks of Paul Klee, who suffered from the same condition — although it wasn’t diagnosed until after his death — forms the heart of the moving Angel Applicant, receiving its world premiere at SXSW (where it snagged the top doc prize).
Meyer worked for more than a decade...
- 3/15/2023
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As SXSW basks in the Oscars afterglow of Everything Everywhere All at Once, which premiered out of competition at the event last year, jury and special awards winners for the 30th edition of the film and TV festival have been announced.
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Top honors in the Narrative Feature Competition went to Paris Zarcilla’s horror pic Raging Grace. The film follows Joy, an undocumented Filipino immigrant who is struggling to do the best she can for her daughter Grace when she secures the perfect job: taking care of an extremely wealthy but terminal old man. The new...
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Top honors in the Narrative Feature Competition went to Paris Zarcilla’s horror pic Raging Grace. The film follows Joy, an undocumented Filipino immigrant who is struggling to do the best she can for her daughter Grace when she secures the perfect job: taking care of an extremely wealthy but terminal old man. The new...
- 3/15/2023
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
This year’s South by Southwest Film & TV Festival has officially unveiled the 2023 winners list.
With buzzy titles such as “Bottoms,” “Beef,” “Swarm,” and “Air” debuting at the festival, the 2023 conference in Austin, Texas proved to be a memorable time. “What an extraordinary week of film and TV premieres here at SXSW, and there is more to come through Saturday,” Claudette Godfrey, VP, Flm & TV, said. “Our theaters have been brimming with enthusiastic audiences celebrating the exceptional and diverse work in our lineup, and we’re so excited to celebrate this year’s jury and special award winners!”
The Narrative Feature Competition, presented by Panavision, bestowed the top honor to “Raging Grace,” written and directed by Paris Zarcilla.
“‘Raging Grace”s heady blend of horror, history, and midnight humor announces the arrival of an exciting new filmmaking talent in writer-director Paris Zarcilla,” the official statement reads. “The story of a...
With buzzy titles such as “Bottoms,” “Beef,” “Swarm,” and “Air” debuting at the festival, the 2023 conference in Austin, Texas proved to be a memorable time. “What an extraordinary week of film and TV premieres here at SXSW, and there is more to come through Saturday,” Claudette Godfrey, VP, Flm & TV, said. “Our theaters have been brimming with enthusiastic audiences celebrating the exceptional and diverse work in our lineup, and we’re so excited to celebrate this year’s jury and special award winners!”
The Narrative Feature Competition, presented by Panavision, bestowed the top honor to “Raging Grace,” written and directed by Paris Zarcilla.
“‘Raging Grace”s heady blend of horror, history, and midnight humor announces the arrival of an exciting new filmmaking talent in writer-director Paris Zarcilla,” the official statement reads. “The story of a...
- 3/15/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Two days after ”Everything Everywhere All at Once“ won seven Oscars, including best picture, the SXSW Film Festival, where Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s movie launched last year, has announced its own awards. To be clear, “Eeaao” was a studio-backed opening night premiere (not one of the smaller movies launched in competition at the indie-focused fest), but you can still feel the excitement in Austin around the landmark Oscar win. After all, SXSW was the first festival to take Daniels seriously, awarding them top prize for their Battles music video (“My Machines”) in 2012.
Will any of the movies or directors screening here this year go on to change film history?
With five days still to go at SXSW, the juries convened to present the winners.
Narrative feature honors went to writer-director Paris Zarcilla’s “Raging Grace.” On the surface, the tense story of an undocumented Filipina house cleaner and...
Will any of the movies or directors screening here this year go on to change film history?
With five days still to go at SXSW, the juries convened to present the winners.
Narrative feature honors went to writer-director Paris Zarcilla’s “Raging Grace.” On the surface, the tense story of an undocumented Filipina house cleaner and...
- 3/15/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
There’s the concept of art as therapy, and then there’s the concept of a specific artist as a therapist, which is how debuting filmmaker Ken August Meyer introduces the Swiss-German painter Paul Klee at the start of his Angel Applicant, premiering today in the SXSW Documentary Feature Competition. At the beginning of the 21st century, Meyer, an art director at Wieden+Kennedy, is struck by systemic scleroderma, a life-threatening autoimmune disease that causes scarring and tightening of the skin and which can damage internal organs. As he embarks on a treatment path, Meyer finds solace as well as a kind of […]
The post “Klee Wanted to Destroy the Convention of Angels in Their Historic Tradition”: Ken August Meyer on His SXSW Doc about Art and Illness, Angel Applicant first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “Klee Wanted to Destroy the Convention of Angels in Their Historic Tradition”: Ken August Meyer on His SXSW Doc about Art and Illness, Angel Applicant first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/13/2023
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
There’s the concept of art as therapy, and then there’s the concept of a specific artist as a therapist, which is how debuting filmmaker Ken August Meyer introduces the Swiss-German painter Paul Klee at the start of his Angel Applicant, premiering today in the SXSW Documentary Feature Competition. At the beginning of the 21st century, Meyer, an art director at Wieden+Kennedy, is struck by systemic scleroderma, a life-threatening autoimmune disease that causes scarring and tightening of the skin and which can damage internal organs. As he embarks on a treatment path, Meyer finds solace as well as a kind of […]
The post “Klee Wanted to Destroy the Convention of Angels in Their Historic Tradition”: Ken August Meyer on His SXSW Doc about Art and Illness, Angel Applicant first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “Klee Wanted to Destroy the Convention of Angels in Their Historic Tradition”: Ken August Meyer on His SXSW Doc about Art and Illness, Angel Applicant first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/13/2023
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Jonathan Perel's Corporate Accountability is showing exclusively on Mubi starting October 13, 2021 in the series Undiscovered. This introduction is sourced from a conversation between Perel and Michael Pattison first published by Alchemy Film & Arts in April 2020.Corporate Accountability is a film based on a book that was published by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. It describes how 25 companies helped the dictatorship in the repression and disappearance of its own workers. Being the state of Argentina the one publishing the book is very important, because it’s not that the film is making a selection or investigating these companies, but the government itself.Although the book is available online, very few printed copies exist, and it’s not really well-known. With the film I want to make the book visible, and to create an image for it. An image that will connect the past with the present. To show these same companies today,...
- 10/14/2021
- MUBI
Beki Probst, former head of the European Film Market, gives Dieter Kosslick great credit for shaping not just the Berlin festival, but also for helping its film market make a quantum leap.
“When you ask me what is the image of the Berlinale today, it is of a red scarf and a Borsalino hat,” says Probst. Both objects are part of the sartorial signature of Kosslick, who is stepping down as festival leader after this year’s edition.
Kosslick is being honored at the Berlin Film Festival with Variety‘s Achievement in International Film Award.
And it was Kosslick who had the vision to move the Efm to the Martin Gropius Bau, the imposing neo-Renaissance building where the market shifted in 2006, and where most of its activities still remain.
After the American Film Market quit its February slot, and settled in November instead — effectively knocking Mifed off the calendar — Berlin...
“When you ask me what is the image of the Berlinale today, it is of a red scarf and a Borsalino hat,” says Probst. Both objects are part of the sartorial signature of Kosslick, who is stepping down as festival leader after this year’s edition.
Kosslick is being honored at the Berlin Film Festival with Variety‘s Achievement in International Film Award.
And it was Kosslick who had the vision to move the Efm to the Martin Gropius Bau, the imposing neo-Renaissance building where the market shifted in 2006, and where most of its activities still remain.
After the American Film Market quit its February slot, and settled in November instead — effectively knocking Mifed off the calendar — Berlin...
- 2/4/2019
- by Carole Horst
- Variety Film + TV
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