ish...it's networthy re-birth

ish...it's networthy re-birth

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This is the love child of Aisling and Ranya - our third year Concordia Communications film (and yes, film, the good, costly stuff...).  ish pokes fun at apathetic, over intellectualizing, over substanced students - who talk the talk (ad nauseum) - but do little to walk the walk (though there are many locations in the short).  A tongue in cheek jab at pop culture, this is the student film to characterize the infamous , and ever present lazy "smart" student, that we all have inside of us...

and of course - doubles as a complicated "how to" manual on the proper way to read an ambiguous flyer in -30 Montreal weather.

shift the collective unconscious...

 

this is of course shouted out to Kassandra and Davey Havok...

one kind of travelling shot...

one kind of travelling shot...

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Went on the Bahgdad Twist shoot as line producer on Thursday, march 23.  here's a little snipit of the DOP sitting on the baggage conveyer belt.  This montreal based filmmaker, Joe Balass short film, about his family arriving to Montreal in the 60s to escape persecution as Jewish people in Iraq.

We were shooting on super16mm - with the aaton camera.  An oldie but a goodie, and you still can't beat the beauty of film, and the technical symphony that occurs on set. 

"I take one step closer to you"

"I take one step closer to you"

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I attended Michael Franti's show in Montreal's Theatre Outremont last night - St-Paddy's day - where he screened his film I know I'm not Alone, that follows his journey through Baghdad, the Palestinian territories, and Israel to help him understand what life is like for those living in occupation. Franti's peace-sharing, and story-listening journey looks at the devastation of the young, US occupation, and the destruction of Palestine which has been existing for several generations. Armed with his guitar, and musical mesage - Franti gained the trust of many and access to their lives and homes through the universal sharing of music and storytelling, and with his courageous acts of initiating dialogue between conflicting sides.

Following the film, the night continued with a question and answer and then of course music!

In this video - Franti dedicates the song to his friend, Marla Ruzicka, founder of CIVIC worldwide - The campaign for innocent victims of conlict, and who died by a car bombing last April (2005).

Tales from the Public Domain

Now this is neat...and about time, too! It seems like such a no-brainer... a cool comic creative commons/fair use super-hero...fighting against ownership on culture, and its effects in the documentary filmmaking world...

Brought to you by the Duke Law School, Bound By Law? is a fun, informative, and appropriatly placed piece of pop culture, that examines pop culture, and how we, as citizens, and information makers and consumers, are allowed to interact, and/or restricted to interact with our own collectively made culture.

Bound By Law uses documentary filmmaking as a concrete example of how our culture is being hijacked, by the simple fact that to create "reality" or truthfully reflective media - filmmakers (and other documentary media makers) have to constantly question what we are capturing on tape/film...a song playing in a cafe may render your footage unuseable because you cannot afford the copyright. This means that our cultural experience can only be represented by the highest bidder, not to the media maker that wants to show their point of view, or their own social experience.

And, how cool is it to have a kick ass chick fighting for fair use media? I don't think it can get much better than that...

compressors, trains, and cats in heat. . . .

compressors, trains, and cats in heat. . . .

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My sincerest apologies for neglecting my dear blog - as infant as it is...but I have had a INCREDIBLE amount of work, and other things to attend to... not that this is a possible excuse that I can expect anyone to accept...but alas, is the only one I can offer for my lack of support...hmmm....maybe I should do it slightly better...for those that understand, or even just accept the beaurocratic, fed answer that I am going to offer...the end of fiscal year, is a crazy time!!!!! so here goes, check out this little vid. that I have to show you... nothing much...but a small, but hopefully first of many "aisling (with the help of many knowledgeable and wonderful people)'s first produced (even just associate producer on...) shoot....
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my first real "legit" producorial role on set....