1.28.2009
the housecat trilogy parts I and II
11.17.2007
For our Winnipeg friends
A screening in your fair Peg city this week! (Thanks to Lia Rinaldo at the Atlantic Film Festival for the hook-up.)
Tues. & Weds./ Nov. 20 & 21 / 9:15 PM at the Winnipeg Cinematheque
PICKLED PUNK: NEW FILMS FROM WOMEN ON THE EAST COAST
After the popularity of the program Film Fatale: Women Filmmakers from Atlantic Canada which screened at the Cinematheque in 2005, programmer Lia Rinaldo has assembled another great program of recent work from the eastern seaboard.– including the following:
Pickled Punk (2006 ) (9 mins.) By Jackie Torrens
The story of a fetus who gets around. Pickled Punk travels through the lives of a group of small town artists.
Dinner For One (2006) (10:15 mins.) (St. John’s , Newfld.) By Anita McGee
This whimsical bathtub opera stars Robert Joy and Mary Colin Chisolm as neighbours who share a love of opera, thin walls, and a habit of eating in the bath.
i said the loud part quiet and the quiet part loud
(2006) (3:29 mins.) By Tara Thorne
In Tara Thorne’s economical and elegant debut short, a man falls in love. Hard.
Lia Rinaldo/ Background
Lia has been the Festival Director at the Atlantic Film Festival Association for the past six years and has seen the event grow from a small annual regional festival to a year round program with a growing international reputation. In September the Atlantic Film Festival celebrated its 26th anniversary.
Tues. & Weds./ Nov. 20 & 21 / 9:15 PM at the Winnipeg Cinematheque
PICKLED PUNK: NEW FILMS FROM WOMEN ON THE EAST COAST
After the popularity of the program Film Fatale: Women Filmmakers from Atlantic Canada which screened at the Cinematheque in 2005, programmer Lia Rinaldo has assembled another great program of recent work from the eastern seaboard.– including the following:
Pickled Punk (2006 ) (9 mins.) By Jackie Torrens
The story of a fetus who gets around. Pickled Punk travels through the lives of a group of small town artists.
Dinner For One (2006) (10:15 mins.) (St. John’s , Newfld.) By Anita McGee
This whimsical bathtub opera stars Robert Joy and Mary Colin Chisolm as neighbours who share a love of opera, thin walls, and a habit of eating in the bath.
i said the loud part quiet and the quiet part loud
(2006) (3:29 mins.) By Tara Thorne
In Tara Thorne’s economical and elegant debut short, a man falls in love. Hard.
Lia Rinaldo/ Background
Lia has been the Festival Director at the Atlantic Film Festival Association for the past six years and has seen the event grow from a small annual regional festival to a year round program with a growing international reputation. In September the Atlantic Film Festival celebrated its 26th anniversary.
// posted by Tara @ 10:57 PM
8.03.2007
One year later
The cycle is complete. Live on, little movie, until the world implodes and takes us all with it.
(PS To the person I made this for: I hope you see it now.)
(PS To the person I made this for: I hope you see it now.)
// posted by Tara @ 1:17 PM
3.14.2007
STITCH PREMIERE
My One Minute Film Scholarship project STITCH (yes with all-caps spelling; I am a pretentious wank in one direction or the other, but never halfway!) has its world premiere in the same theatre as loud part quiet, Park Lane, on Wednesday March 21. It's the first event in the inaugural Halifax Independent Filmmakers' Festival, woot!
Five bucks gets you in, and there will be a screening at 7, another at 8, followed by a reception at Dio Mio.
I'll discuss the experience in more detail after the screening.
See the whole line-up here.
Five bucks gets you in, and there will be a screening at 7, another at 8, followed by a reception at Dio Mio.
I'll discuss the experience in more detail after the screening.
See the whole line-up here.
// posted by Tara @ 3:32 PM
1.29.2007
The 2007 Sundance Film Festival: A Photo Essay
12.30.2006
The Stitchy and scratchy movie
On December 2, I grabbed a tiny crew (Denise Williams) and two stars (Jane Thomson and Chuck Teed) and dragged them out into the woods of Upper Musquodoboit on the last day of hunting season to shoot Stitch, the One Minute Film I've been developing since September. It's a socio-economic commentary on the political ideology of, um...
Oh please. It's about an oblivious person. BUT a boy instead of a girl this time. You can say I've run out of ideas, but you cannot accuse me of sexism! (The working title was i said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet.)
Five hours, one broken light metre, a dead battery and a single terrifying moose call later, we were finished. The second I ran out of film it started to rain. I like to think that's a sign.
Next week I begin editing, splicing and taping on the Steenbeck editor. It's nice to learn a new skill that doesn't inflame my carpal tunnel. Look for a screening in March.
They are really excited to work with me. Incidentally, this is the last we saw of the sun.
Either Hitchcock or McG said "Never work with kids or animals." On the drive home,
Chuck fell asleep and Jane became physically ill. A job well done by me. (Jane's dress
and Chuck's scarf by Value Village.)
Oh please. It's about an oblivious person. BUT a boy instead of a girl this time. You can say I've run out of ideas, but you cannot accuse me of sexism! (The working title was i said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet.)
Five hours, one broken light metre, a dead battery and a single terrifying moose call later, we were finished. The second I ran out of film it started to rain. I like to think that's a sign.
Next week I begin editing, splicing and taping on the Steenbeck editor. It's nice to learn a new skill that doesn't inflame my carpal tunnel. Look for a screening in March.
They are really excited to work with me. Incidentally, this is the last we saw of the sun.
Either Hitchcock or McG said "Never work with kids or animals." On the drive home,
Chuck fell asleep and Jane became physically ill. A job well done by me. (Jane's dress
and Chuck's scarf by Value Village.)
// posted by Tara @ 10:04 PM
10.11.2006
We screen again!
On Saturday, October 21, loud part quiet will screen in a selection of underground videos and films at CanZine East, a zine fair being held in conjunction with the mighty Halifax Pop Explosion at St. David's Church Hall (across from Steve-O's on Brunswick).
I'm probably going to have to miss it due to other HPX and OMF (One Minute Film) commitments, but hopefully some of the cast and crew -- Borcherdt will be in town on HPX duty himself -- will represent.
The screening is at 4pm and costs $5.
I'm probably going to have to miss it due to other HPX and OMF (One Minute Film) commitments, but hopefully some of the cast and crew -- Borcherdt will be in town on HPX duty himself -- will represent.
The screening is at 4pm and costs $5.
// posted by Tara @ 8:53 PM
9.28.2006
Charticle
Shannon Webb-Campbell opens her piece on Jill Barber with some words about the movie. It's weird to be on the quoted side of things, having been the quotee for so long. It's all good until I start talking about why I cast her..."Jill has, like, a great face? And cool clothes. And you know, whatever..."
From Shannon's great piece on ChartAttack.com:
Apparently Brian Borcherdt isn't the only person dumbstruck by Jill Barber. The Halifax-based songbird made her on-screen debut at this year's Atlantic Film Festival in director Tara Thorne's short film about adoration, I Said The Loud Part Quiet And The Quiet Part Loud.
"It's a very whimsical short film," says Barber, over coffee at the bookish Trident Cafe in Halifax. "It was really cool to be a part of it. I don't know how I felt about being Brian's object of affection. I mean, I was acting, you know?"
Barber portrayed Borcherdt's mute all-consuming infatuation, as scenes illustrate the scruffy rocker falling off his chair without any prompting by merely thinking of her. Snippets of Barber's physique frame various shots.
"I did want to write something for Brian, and I was trying to figure out who the girl should be, and I knew it would just be chunks of her," says Thorne. "Then I thought, is that anti-feminist? You know, like Hustler or something, where they cut the heads off the women? Is that bad? I thought, nah, it's not sexualized, it's just arty. Jill was the first person I thought of. She has a really great face and she dresses very nicely. She's not trendy, but she always looks really great."
From Shannon's great piece on ChartAttack.com:
Apparently Brian Borcherdt isn't the only person dumbstruck by Jill Barber. The Halifax-based songbird made her on-screen debut at this year's Atlantic Film Festival in director Tara Thorne's short film about adoration, I Said The Loud Part Quiet And The Quiet Part Loud.
"It's a very whimsical short film," says Barber, over coffee at the bookish Trident Cafe in Halifax. "It was really cool to be a part of it. I don't know how I felt about being Brian's object of affection. I mean, I was acting, you know?"
Barber portrayed Borcherdt's mute all-consuming infatuation, as scenes illustrate the scruffy rocker falling off his chair without any prompting by merely thinking of her. Snippets of Barber's physique frame various shots.
"I did want to write something for Brian, and I was trying to figure out who the girl should be, and I knew it would just be chunks of her," says Thorne. "Then I thought, is that anti-feminist? You know, like Hustler or something, where they cut the heads off the women? Is that bad? I thought, nah, it's not sexualized, it's just arty. Jill was the first person I thought of. She has a really great face and she dresses very nicely. She's not trendy, but she always looks really great."
// posted by Tara @ 12:25 PM
9.21.2006
First webbing, woo!
("Webbing," not "clipping," yes?)
Later, Tara Thorne — arts editor at the Coast and a weekly entertainment columnist for CBC Radio Halifax’s Information Morning — delivers her first short, i said the loud part quiet and the quiet part loud. Thorne mixes pop-culture savvy (her title refers to dialogue by Krusty the Clown of Simpsons fame), great music (Sarah Harmer, In-Flight Safety) and a minimalist script and sets to tell a story of a man who is stunned by infatuation. In the three-minute film, musician Brian Borcherdt plays the besotted man to singer-songwriter Jill Barber’s oblivious woman.
"I feel my nausea subsiding," Thorne says afterwards. "When I heard the mandolin come up on the Harmer song [I Am Aglow, which starts the film], I was like, 'Oh shit.' And then the picture came up and it looked and sounded great and I started to feel relieved."
Istlpqatqpl's spare quality grew out of necessity and purpose. "The white room idea was a total location cheat to save time and money," Thorne says. "Otherwise I wanted minimalism because it was really like bringing a piece of writing to life, and I wanted it to be clear what I was saying, so I didn't want a bunch of props or fancy crap in there getting in the way."--Sean Flinn
The whole shebang be here.
Later, Tara Thorne — arts editor at the Coast and a weekly entertainment columnist for CBC Radio Halifax’s Information Morning — delivers her first short, i said the loud part quiet and the quiet part loud. Thorne mixes pop-culture savvy (her title refers to dialogue by Krusty the Clown of Simpsons fame), great music (Sarah Harmer, In-Flight Safety) and a minimalist script and sets to tell a story of a man who is stunned by infatuation. In the three-minute film, musician Brian Borcherdt plays the besotted man to singer-songwriter Jill Barber’s oblivious woman.
"I feel my nausea subsiding," Thorne says afterwards. "When I heard the mandolin come up on the Harmer song [I Am Aglow, which starts the film], I was like, 'Oh shit.' And then the picture came up and it looked and sounded great and I started to feel relieved."
Istlpqatqpl's spare quality grew out of necessity and purpose. "The white room idea was a total location cheat to save time and money," Thorne says. "Otherwise I wanted minimalism because it was really like bringing a piece of writing to life, and I wanted it to be clear what I was saying, so I didn't want a bunch of props or fancy crap in there getting in the way."--Sean Flinn
The whole shebang be here.
// posted by Tara @ 4:17 PM
9.20.2006
the after party
We screened on Monday.
Dan, Alicia, Jill, Mike, Matt, John, Steph, Chuck, Megan and myself were all there. I don't have any photographic evidence, even though I was carrying my camera, because I was too busy talking to people and trying not to throw up into my hands.
Programmer Lee Anne Gillan, who was my first copyeditor at The Coast six years ago, passed me outside Park Lane and told me all the filmmakers got to say a few words. "Don't talk too long, and say something funny," she ordered.
Instead I just sucked up to the film festival, which deserves it.
Loud part screened third, after Megan and Rosemary Hanson's The Visitor, which was shot in my house in one day this June. I knew we would be next, somehow.
Sarah Harmer's "I Am Aglow" came up -- I could probably play that opening mandolin myself now, I've heard it so many times -- and I opened my eyes and Brian was walking toward me and it looked and sounded AMAZING.
Relief.
John was sitting in front of me and he laughed more than anybody when the opening car crash hit. (He made the crash.)
Milk gag: Healthy laughter.
My beloved Frisbee gag: Minimal laughter. (What is up with that?)
Chair gags: Polite laughter.
Starbucks scene: Great laughs, especially on Mike and Chuck's shared WTF look and Brian's easy-to-miss shrug.
Window scene: To me this is where things are getting particularly sad, but the sold-out Park Lane audience was laughing to kill itself. Brian staring at a brick wall is funny, but not ha-ha funny. In that moment I felt like Lucy Fernandez screening It Creeps.
Full-body oblivion: complete silence. Yay.
And two rounds of applause: one when my credit came up, the other after the credit roll.
PHEW.
Thanks to everybody who attended, laughed politely or said nice things to me.
On to the next step.
Whatever the fuck that is.
Dan, Alicia, Jill, Mike, Matt, John, Steph, Chuck, Megan and myself were all there. I don't have any photographic evidence, even though I was carrying my camera, because I was too busy talking to people and trying not to throw up into my hands.
Programmer Lee Anne Gillan, who was my first copyeditor at The Coast six years ago, passed me outside Park Lane and told me all the filmmakers got to say a few words. "Don't talk too long, and say something funny," she ordered.
Instead I just sucked up to the film festival, which deserves it.
Loud part screened third, after Megan and Rosemary Hanson's The Visitor, which was shot in my house in one day this June. I knew we would be next, somehow.
Sarah Harmer's "I Am Aglow" came up -- I could probably play that opening mandolin myself now, I've heard it so many times -- and I opened my eyes and Brian was walking toward me and it looked and sounded AMAZING.
Relief.
John was sitting in front of me and he laughed more than anybody when the opening car crash hit. (He made the crash.)
Milk gag: Healthy laughter.
My beloved Frisbee gag: Minimal laughter. (What is up with that?)
Chair gags: Polite laughter.
Starbucks scene: Great laughs, especially on Mike and Chuck's shared WTF look and Brian's easy-to-miss shrug.
Window scene: To me this is where things are getting particularly sad, but the sold-out Park Lane audience was laughing to kill itself. Brian staring at a brick wall is funny, but not ha-ha funny. In that moment I felt like Lucy Fernandez screening It Creeps.
Full-body oblivion: complete silence. Yay.
And two rounds of applause: one when my credit came up, the other after the credit roll.
PHEW.
Thanks to everybody who attended, laughed politely or said nice things to me.
On to the next step.
Whatever the fuck that is.
// posted by Tara @ 9:08 PM
