slightlymoving

i got an email that was someone trying to raise $100,000 grand to buy an island. i thought it sounded like crazy spam but i went to the website for a look anyway and found fundable.com one the main page one of the case studies (linked to above) is for Misnomer Dance Theatre in NYC. they used a target of $800 on fundable to raise money for a show. to quote the AD

In the long run, we want our company to serve as a case-study for creating a method of distribution techniques that build wider, more engaged audiences and new models for performing arts companies to generate support. With Fundable, I want to see if fundraising can also be part of this effort, by harnessing the contributing powers of people who discover us online. Your gift will go directly toward commissioning a new work of art: paying the dancers fees, designing costumes, and renting rehearsal spaces.

laudable i suppose. attempting to move back to a patronage system for the arts. and why not? when arts funding bodies have less and less money there have to be different models for finding ways to develop work and sustain companies.

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20:28 24th Jul 2009

tags: dance screendance dance film adelina larsson david corbet

features adelina larsson dancing.

shot in a black box studio as an exercise in handheld filming, relationship between camera and dancer, and editing to create the choreography.

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22:16 20th Jul 2009

Animate Inanimate

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13:01 10th Jul 2009

What a 7 year old finds interesting in the back seat of the car.

Testing the photoset function of tumblr.

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07:59 6th Jul 2009

image: download

Bourke street with a tilt shift.

00:38 4th Jul 2009

tags: the last ride movie

the last ride

ive just come back from an evening session of The Last Ride at Cinema Nova

i’m a bit devastated. i went on my own and think i picked the wrong seat, because there was a cold breeze blowing over me the whole time. that’s not why i’m devastated though.

it’s a beautiful looking film that is heartbreaking in the ugly reality it portrays. there is such attention and care in every image and sound that appears, it is truly stunning.

the story though, is what made me feel so devastated. from a sparse beginning the story and relationship between the two main characters is slowly revealed. the inevitable ending seems natural, but made me feel such a sense of loss and lack of hope without any chance of redemption. it deals with the complexity of love and family and the cycles of dependency and despair that some people get trapped into - and in writing that, i realise there actually are moments of hope, and joy in the story as well.

walking home i cried. i was, still am i think, upset by the fact that some people have such fucked up lives that we think to write books and make movies about them. hopefully as a means to an end of creating more understanding about why fucked up things happen and hopefully allowing the chance for things to change. at least i hope so - because if not, i can’t bear the thought of such talent and energy being used like this. that’s probably a little more hardcore than i meant.

i was moved by the film. it was compelling. and powerful. and a bunch of other adjectives that get overused in film reviews. and it covered a lot of ground in it’s 100 minutes.

it’s definitely worth seeing.

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