One lovely Tuesday evening in Amsterdam during IDFA, I went out to the “boonies” of the city (about a 20 minute walk from the city center) to attend a presentation of the Mediamatic Lab. Tipped off to this open presentation by Joel Heller, three intrepid Americans set off to see what the Dutch design […]

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Ben Niles’ documentary, Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 opens for a two-week run at Film Forum starting this Wednesday, November 7. A couple of days before the film’s theatrical debut, I sat and talked with first-time film director, Niles, and Jim Browne of Argot Pictures. Browne recently came on board […]

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I haven’t yet seen the film, but it seems unanimous that Manufactured Landscapes by Jennifer Baichwal is a stunning film and an apt companion to Davis Guggenheim’s An Inconvenient Truth in illuminating our impact on the Earth. Bright Lights Film Journal has a great interview with the director and Canadian photograph Edward Burtynsky, whose artwork […]

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Via Film Threat, Michael Dean has made his full documentary available on YouTube. The first part is aesthetically uninspiring, but looks poised for some interesting profiles despite the rough edges.

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I’ve heard about and seen first-hand a few projects over the years that employ a concensus approach, whether it be soliciting advice from the film’s subjects, a group of filmmakers, or in this case, the public. Via Filmmaker magazine’s blog, “Two filmmakers, Eric Byler and Annabel Park, are making a film about the politics of […]

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