Experimental Movie Director

A premiere coming up? I sought help from the I Ching and ChatGPT! Good stuff! I couldn't find anything about this topic in other podcasts so I this made this :)

Another go at the Unboxing genre! Includes a bunch of other ideas for podcasts too :)

A thought experiment - how does filming capture the personal experience of going to the barbers? Featuring biophotonics and the support of the word "filmer"

Old filmer talks to young DJ - AI, creativity, audience, genre. I learnt a lot about how film relates to music in the digital world we live in. Great to hear someone engaged and curious - concerned but with answers too.

There is a funding gap between the Arts Council of England and the British Film Institute. This podcast deep dives and tumbles beyond the headlines - what is actually available for indie movie makers? And without this being resolved how does a British movie culture develop? The Arts Council refuses to engage with filmmakers as creative artists - passing the buck to the BFI which is actually skills...

Facing the errors in my practice... editing is long days facing this horror... which is rather too strong a word ha! Anyway - discussions around Sound, Framing, Focus, Performance, Cognitive Eye Movements, Camera Movement, Music and Editing. many podcasts seem to ignore the harsh personal realities of the filmmaking process so I wanted to be honest and open. Unfortunately when I first recorded thi...

Looking for laurels? It ain't your fault. The far-reaching theories about cultural producers - by Pierre Bourdieu - have been applied to Hollywood. For me this has a lot to say about the function and purpose of film festivals! Cattani, G., Ferriani, S. and Allison, P.D. (2014) ‘Insiders, outsiders, and the struggle for consecration in cultural fields’, American Sociological Review, 79(2), pp. 258–...

Today we chat with Dan Vendigo - aspiring and busy, ambitious & realistic, procrastination & innovation. An older filmmaker compares notes with the new wave. What do young filmmakers expect from their kit and their industry?

A new approach to structuring cinema - throw off the shackles of literature! From the I Ching to AI to paleolithic cameras... a journey around the experimental approaches of an indie film director REFERENCES: Jung, C. G. (1972) Four archetypes: mother, rebirth, spirit, trickster. Translated by R. F. C. Hull. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Propp, V.Y. (2012) The Russian Folktale [Translated by...

A long-standing aphorism this - with particular resonance and meaning for filmmakers. How doe we compare this to "attention to detail"?

So this is what started the podcast - because I could not find a podcast - among all the excellent info there is out there - that talks about what the FX3 means to me as a filmmaker. What difference will this kit make to how I feel about my work?

What can cinema become?