neat stuff
Hello friends,
Apologies for the long silence. I hope you have been alright.
Here is an excerpt from a roll I've titled snowing, in which I tried to use black and white, snow, and a gray sky to my advantage by focusing on 'white' negative space.
(Patreon subscribers get a link to the full film)
In other news...
- If you haven't already heard, Another Gaze's new 'streaming platform', Another Screen has two new programs up: For a Free Palestine: Films by Palestinian Women and Marguerite Duras on Television, both highly recommended! I know you already give us some cash each month, but if you are in a position to throw AG/AS a few bucks as well, please do so! They are consistently cranking out incredible work and slapping it online for totally free and open access! You love to see it.
- This Long Century is currently showing 5 shorts by experimental Bolex animator extraordinaire Jodie Mack on their new 'streaming platform', Ecstatic Static. Otherwise you can catch loads more Mack on her personal Vimeo page. TLC/ES also has a pretty neat new Resources page, with loads of interesting out of print film books as downloadable PDFs.
- For even more streaming, check out The World Seen and Dreamt: A Collection of Films from Espírito Santoover on Cine Limite.
UPDATE! I forgot to include NOMADICA in the exciting streaming events
- On May 29th & 30th, my short film Neko is playing in Long Distance Film Festival. The festival begins on May 28th and consists of 'Past', 'Present' and 'Future' program blocks, which will be screened three times each. These streams are LIVE baby, and especially designed to accommodate various time zones. There won't be a chance to catch them afterward if you miss all three screenings of a block, so tune in!
Although he has contributed to Ultra Dogme before, and I have sent him my films unsolicited before, I was surprised when critic Michael Sicinski recently asked for a screener of Neko. I was further taken aback when he logged it twice on the same day on Letterboxd. Then I lost my shit when less than a week later (yesterday) he briefly wrote about it on his Patreon and placed it at #16 on his best of 2021 list!! Here's a tiny excerpt from his review:
"I see Neko as a bit of a breakthrough in MLP's work. There is a complex structural play that gives this film a bit more shape and follow-through than some of his previous films, and this has a lot to do with Max's use of multiple registers of imagery."
Hell yeah!
In UltDog News...
- In case you missed it, we recently published a short text by Belgian filmmaker Matthias De Groof about Kapita, a selection in this year's Berlinale Forum Expanded
- And although it's a bit older, I just realized I don't think I ever posted about it here, so if you have not, be sure and take a minute to sit with Ruairí McCann's recent John Ford double feature Blu-ray review! Ruairí is a bona fide Ford-o-phile so believe me when I say it's a good read for newcomers and Ford veterans alike!
- And one more 'in case you missed it' piece, written by Ruairí and yours truly for Frameland: “Luminous pain, which unfolds as rhythm”: A Short Exchange on Limite and its Limitlessness.
-Ruairí and I also recently collaborated on a new musical release: Slack, Saw by Two Nice Catholic Boys
- And although I haven't yet read it, I want to give a shout out to our contributor Luise Mörke, who made her Mubi notebook debut last week with Hard Cover: Christian Petzold, Reader/Director.
- Finally, I recently enjoyed this short Serge Daney piece from Cannes 1984: The Karma of Images
Ok here's a dumb thing that made me laugh and you might also enjoy.
In solidarity, with love, longing for peace, wishing you the best,
MLP