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NICKEL BOYS — RaMell Ross

January 8, 2025 By Leave a Comment

NICKEL BOYS — RaMell Ross

Click here to listen to the interview. When I spoke to RaMell Ross on December 11, 2024 for his debut narrative, NICKEL BOYS, it was just a few days after he had presented cast member Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor with the Social Impact Award at the Seventh Annual Critics Choice Awards Celebration of Black Cinema and Television.… Read More »

Tagged With: ATMOS, Critics Choice Awards, Dozier School conspiracy of silence, first-person POV, Intimacy Coordinator, racism, Social Impact Award, sound design, violence

MINISTRY OF LONELINESS — Jackie Fang Interview

July 25, 2024 By Leave a Comment

MINISTRY OF LONELINESS — Jackie Fang Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. When I spoke via Zoom with cinematographer Jackie Fang on July 12, 2024, I joked that I had never been more aware of the lighting in my home (and on me). I may live in a world where a lamp is there to keep me from bumping into… Read More »

Tagged With: cinematographer, color palette, David Greene, filming during COVID, home lighting, Jerry Henry, natural light, Randa Ali, San Francisco Art Institute, sound design, UCLA, Vision Mentorship, visualizing loneliness

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS – Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews Interview

March 4, 2024 By Leave a Comment

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS – Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews have been friends and collaborators (L.I.P.S and LAKE MICHIGAN LAKE MONSTER) for a very long time. That, and their particular sense of humor is something that becomes apparent very quickly when speaking to them, as I did via Zoom on March… Read More »

Tagged With: Alton Brown, animation, beavers, black and white, Bob Barito, frostbite, frostbite. Kafka, green screen, John Tray, live-action, log flume, mascot suits, mascot-costume kung fu, Mysterious castles, no dialogue, NYU, snow, sound design, Tom Waits, Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin

FALL — Scott Mann Interview

August 10, 2022 By Leave a Comment

FALL — Scott Mann Interview

  Click here to listen to the interview. When I spoke to Scott Mann via Zoom on August 9, 2022. I learned a new term. It may have been around for a while, but this was the first time I’d head the term “height horror” and it perfectly describes Mann’s latest film, FALL. Exquisitely photographed… Read More »

Tagged With: fear of falling, flying ants, going wide, Height horror, locusts, online influencers, push-up bra, sound design

FIRE OF LOVE — Sara Dosa Interview

July 1, 2022 By Leave a Comment

FIRE OF LOVE — Sara Dosa Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Sara Dosa’s last documentary, THE SEER AND THE UNSEEN, reconsidered the existence of elves in contemporary Iceland from a point of view that, blissfully, refused to be tethered to a mechanistic attitude. Her latest, FIRE OF LOVE, finds similar magic it its subject, married volcanologists Maurice and Katia… Read More »

Tagged With: Erin Casper, Jocelyne Chaput, Katia Krafft, lava, Maurice Krafft, Miranda July, railroad time, Rebecca Solnit, sentient lava, sound design, transcendence, volcano, volcanology

NEVER LOOK AWAY – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Interview

February 21, 2019 By Leave a Comment

NEVER LOOK AWAY – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Before I started recording my interview with Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck on January 14, 2019, we reminisced about the last time we had met. It was just before his film, THE LIVES OF OTHERS, had beaten Guillermo del Toro’s odd-on favorite for the Best Foreign Language Oscar™, PAN’S… Read More »

Tagged With: art, art and politics, Avant-garde, Caleb Deschanel, cinematography, Exhibition of Degenerate Art, Gerhard Richter, Nazi, Oscar nominee, sound design, Trump, war crimes

THE TICKET — Ido Fluk Interview

April 8, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE TICKET — Ido Fluk Interview

The premise of THE TICKET is the decidedly mixed nature of blessings. In this case, what happens when James, played by Dan Stevens, miraculously regains his eyesight after losing it as a child. The initial euphoria felt by him and his wife, Sam, soon gives way to the stresses that ensue as their relationships change… Read More »

Tagged With: ambition, blindness, BLUE, Derek Jarman, Ido Fluk, miracle, perception, power struggle, prayer, relationships, religion, Sharon Mashihi, sound design, sound mixing, Tom Ryan, Zack Galler

THE SOUNDING — Catherine Eaton and Teddy Sears Interview

March 18, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE SOUNDING — Catherine Eaton and Teddy Sears Interview

I sometimes warn the people I’m interviewing that I have a tendency to read way too much into things. When I did that before starting my phone conversation with Catherine Easton and Teddy Sears on March 3, 2017 about their film, THE SOUNDING, they both assured me that everything I read into the film was… Read More »

Tagged With: definition of mental disorder, indie filmmaking, metaphor, Oliver Sacks, otherness, Shakespeare, sound design, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, woman’s voice

FARE — Thomas Torrey Interview

March 1, 2017 By Leave a Comment

FARE — Thomas Torrey Interview

The first thing I asked Thomas Torrey when I spoke with him by phone on February 23, 2017, was whether shooting his film, FARE, in three days, and entirely within a car, was necessity or personal challenge. Once that was out of the way, we went on to talk about the odd sort of intimacy… Read More »

Tagged With: agnostic, C. S. Lewis, cinematography, coincidence, infidelity, Kunal Rajan, Madeleine L’Engle, moon roof, mystery, R.C. Walker, ride-share, sound design, suspense, The Screwtape Letters, theology, Wormwood

CAMERAPERSON — Kirsten Johnson Interview

October 8, 2016 By Leave a Comment

CAMERAPERSON — Kirsten Johnson Interview

Kirsten Johnson has spent 25 filming other people’s documentaries. With CAMERAPERSON, she uses the outtakes of those films, as well as new footage of her family, to make a film that is much more than the sum of its parts. When I spoke with the ebullient and thoughtful filmmaker on September 30, 2016, we talked… Read More »

Tagged With: Amanda Laws, blueberries, Bosnia, Derrida, Eric Milano, externalized psyche, Fruitvale Station, Guantanamo, James Byrd, Judy Karp, Laura Poitras, Nels Bangerter, organized rape, Oscar Grant, Pete Horner, racism, Sarajevo Film Festival, Shoah Foundation, Skywalker Ranch, sound design, trauma cut, Trevor Paglen, Wellington Bowler, Yemen

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