There is a rare bright spot amidst the unrelentingly horrible Covid-19 news: the flowering of limited- location, short movies. Filmmakers around the world, working in many genres, have beendocumenting life during this pandemic. A memorable example is Sebastien Liebus’s “Unlockdown,” which took the top prize at the Corman Quarantine Film Festival. Liebus lives in a…
read more →It’s not easy to get people to agree on anything. But there does seem to be consensus that we’re living in strange times. Which makes the strange and wonderful “Home/Body” a perfect viewing choice. Created for the Roger Corman Quarantine Film Festival, this two-minute movie was directed by Dylan Hillerman and produced by Julia Reodica. The…
read more →Plenty of ink (and digits) have been spilled describing how Covid has limited our options. On the other side of the ledger, many people have reminded us that we can still live fully if we put our minds to it. The media have reported huge increases in gardening, bicycling, online acting (via Zoom), and home…
read more →Noted mobile moviemaker Cassius Rayner has been documenting life in London in the Covid-19 era. In May he filmed graffiti artist creating a mural honor the National Health Service (NHS). The movie’s content is certainly timely and significant. But Rayner’s cinematic mastery elevates this mini-doc. Note techniques such as the establishing sequence, a high-angle shot,…
read more →Globalism is about all the ways people connect outside national boundaries. What seems like a rather abstract topic in reality generates a great deal of conflict. Are international treaties, corporations and initiatives a good thing, or would we do better living our lives locally? Anti-Flag’s new music video “Unbreakable” definitely comes down on the side…
read more →Most great films have one thing in common: they’re experiments that push the limits. There’s the shower scene in “Psycho.” There’s the outrageously mismatched leads in “King Kong.” And the dead narrator in “Sunset Boulevard.” For a current example, consider “Locked Away” directed by Chicago filmmaker David Schmidt. Here the challenge was making a slick-looking movie…
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