Category Archives: film

Slamdance essay, 2012: ON FAILURE

Posted on January 21, 2012 by

Every year I write an essay for the Slamdance film catalog. This year, I decided to write about something filmmakers (and artists in general!) know a lot about: Failure. — Here we are. Another year at Slamdance with the crème … Continue reading →

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Micah Hahn, on Typography

Posted on December 24, 2011 by

Made this. Love him. Here’s a link to his website.

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‘Work No. 16 (2011): Stories’, Season 1

Posted on December 12, 2011 by

Part of the art collaborative Mr. and Mrs. Hahn, the ‘Stories’ project is an ongoing series of true short stories, told on camera by fascinating people around the world. You can watch all of Season 1 here on the Vimeo … Continue reading →

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I’m looking for films about L.A.

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

I’m looking for short films that present alternate (authentic) narratives about Los Angeles, preferably by L.A.-based filmmakers, for an upcoming program I am curating for Big City Forum. Please drop me a line at saskia [at] saskiawilsonbrown [dot] com with … Continue reading →

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This week’s list: Filmmakers I’m drooling over

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

Seven Nine (!) filmmakers I am way excited about right now. Michael Medaglia: Because he is about to release his short thriller Kitty Kitty on VODO (look for it on June 10th) and because he has a script he’s shopping … Continue reading →

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Filmmaker Summit at Slamdance

Posted on January 21, 2011 by

For the second year in a row, I produced the Slamdance/ WorkBook Project/ Open Video Alliance Filmmaker Summit at Slamdance Film Festival (sponsored by IndieFlix, Banyan Branch and the Ford Foundation). The summit happened Saturday January 22nd, and was live streamed online. … Continue reading →

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Films I don’t¹ get excited about watching² anymore, and some unsolicited advice³

Posted on November 27, 2010 by

These indie tropes are now done. Maybe even overdone. 1. THE BAND TOUR DOC Band from US/UK/Australia goes on tour to Europe/US/Europe&US. Filmmaker tags along. Filmmaker films freeways being driven upon, through front window/side window. Prevalent attention paid to road … Continue reading →

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I Love Alaska

Posted on September 16, 2010 by

‘I Love Alaska’ — by Dutch directors Sander Plug and Lernert Engelberts – is 13 short episodes chronicling the life of AOL user #71139 through her search queries, which were inadvertently released on the internet when AOL mistakenly published the private … Continue reading →

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I Hate Perfume

Posted on September 8, 2010 by

From our friends over at WorkBook Project Lab’s Radar series comes the newest episode about New York based perfumer Christopher Brosius, from CB I Hate Perfume. Brosius is someone I’ve been following for awhile, since he left Demeter and started … Continue reading →

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Film: Circulo Uno

Posted on August 2, 2010 by

Circulo Uno (or Circle One) Written/directed by César Pesquera. Looks amazing. Check out preview here. (This comes to me, like many things, thanks to AutumnSeventy.)

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