Notes on what filmmakers do when they get home
Just made a quick clipreel of some of my documentary work over the last year. Simple for camerawork or motion graphics, it's difficult as a P/D to give a flavour of your narrative style in a showreel.
"Hey that's my toilet! What are you doing?" Edson Chagas, the photographer whose work "Found, Not Taken" won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale last year has had some startled responses while he works. Not least when he borrowed a discarded toilet for a photograph. "I don't have any great statement to make, but [...]
The editing on Nic Roeg's Performance still seems staggeringly modern. Fast and sometimes showing two stories unfolding at once it's easy to see how it laid the groundwork for modern cinematic storytelling with techniques that have found a natural home in promos and commercials. I'm watching it as part of a friend's showreel. Tony Palmer (left) [...]