«Exit through the gift shop» (or «Faites le mur» in French) is a great documentary on street art, now in theatres.
It features prominently Thierry Guetta, a good friend from LA who helped me to find a house when I was teaching at USC in 2004-2005. I was living then in a house owned by Thierry’s brother next to the Paramount studios, on Willoughby avenue @ Gower, where I started to find ideas for my film «Junkyard of Dreams».
The Lumière Brothers, inventors of the first movie camera, were from Lyon. The musée Lumière is dedicated to their invention.
Créé à l’initiative du président de la République, Nicolas Sarkozy, le nouveau Conseil de la Création Artistique a vu le jour le 2 février 2009.
A web-based piece of generative cinema by Marc Lafia, proposing spatial juxtapositions of film excerpts.
The artist makes a reference to Raymond Queneau, George Perec and the Oulipo movement in his description of the piece.
An anthology I would like to see. A collection of erotic short films, by some of the greatest video artists, produced by Mel Agace.
Their Sundance party in 2006 was great, but I still haven’t seen the film…
Ridley Scott has been planning to shot a prequel to the «Alien» classic, he says in an interview.
Rebecca reminds me in the pictures on the site of Hollywood actress Fairuza Balk.
I met Fairuza during the West Coast premiere of «Don’t come Knocking» by Wim
Wenders.
There is a project for building a state-of-the-art film and television studio campus in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Plymouth Rock Studios would also fund a new Center for Future Storytelling at the MIT Media Lab, directed by Michael Bove and Cynthia Breazeal.
Sundance, YouTube and Ridley Scott have partnered to create a film with people all around the world.
Submissions close 31st July 2010.
This international documentary studies conference will take place in Istanbul this year, in August.