under blue moon i saw you

technically it's not the start of the year, but for all intensive purposes according to certain AWOL monks & blog party time it is. anyway i'm BACK! happy new year one and all. january was a false start punctuated by bush & bollywood. february is much more focussed. more internet time. so soon you'll take me up in your arms.

what better way to commence 2010 than a piece of tortured nostalgia whilst tenderly nursing a morning after KINO hangover? unwillingly mine.

last night was KINO #33 [with an appearance by my pseudo 24 hour flick "not beautiful enough" now sublimely edited/sound designed by the wonderful star germans, felix and michael & starring the ever lovely muse catherine davies]. the fat32 myth finally debunked... fate up against your will.

heads up to oliver dickens, dan rossi & dave cheng for shooting, sound recording & capturing awesome stills whilst we illegally ran amok amongst the loading containers adjacent to sydney airport before security threw us out as the sun rose and heralded in the day. we were in and out almost within the hour. except we had to break back in in the dead of night to look for missing make-up & head torches. under blue moon i saw you.

anyway that was yesterday. today is echo and the bunnymen. in sydney. if this is what george orwell's 1984 looked like i could easily move in. and stay. forever. your lips a magic world...

not beautiful enough

poor neglected blog... right on the back of making & screening "the unfinished tale of annabel lee" on thursday night this week i made an unplanned drunken promise at the red rattler theatre to shoot another film with my delighful muse, cat, in the following two days [goodbye life]...

after quickly shuffling the rest of my week around, i had an idea on friday morning & rocked up to the KINO KABARET meeting at 10:00 to pitch with a bunch of other crazed filmmakers on a week long 48 hour marathon based in the lab at metroscreen.

friday was spent making friends with oliver from london KINO & bringing him on board to shoot when originally i thought maybe just to shoot myself by mobile phone but realised the imagery i wanted to capture could really benefit from an HD injection.

using the sponsored canon legria on the basis that we aimed for a PG rating in order to relationship build with canon, i ran off to hunt down props. then perhaps knock out a script & secure a fairly specific location... all this whilst celebrating a friend [magali] leaving for paris & another's [amalia] birthday. to the point at 01:00 tipsily running around the cross we made an unscheduled stopover at her shop where she made the best alcohol infused wedding posey ever in the middle of her birthday sojourn between clubs. good friends and passion are irreplaceable.

by 03:00 i was making equipment & shotlists and at 04:00 davey rocked back up after a late night in between film snack where we then drove off into the night to location scout industrial wastelands...

from 05:00 our mini crew [oliver, dan, davey, cat] were starting to arrive at the corner shop to be on set for 06:30 where we set off in pursuit of the magic hour. we have some beautiful footage which sadly has still been somewhat evasive in transfer due to file size limitations regarding .mts to .mov transfer between computers. if anyone can tell us how to xfer files over 4G from one mac to another i will be permanently indebted. at least we have some stunning photos thanks to davey.

we had a screening FAIL last night. but i'm excited that we have a very pretty film here in the can. just as soon as we can use the files... fat32 we're onto you.