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Some serious looking cats, no?
I’m absolutely stoked that my brother, Micah and Blake are shooting next week’s show. We’ve had some extremely talented filmmakers contribute to the project up til now, but these guys make “visually stunning” sound like a piss poor compliment.
Check out the trailer for their film, Dogs of Chinatown:
DOGS of CHINATOWN new trailer from All Aces Media on Vimeo.
Now imagine Grilled Cheese Jesus shot by these guys.
I can’t wait.
photo by Justin Reich
The Movie Show, a radio program about movies which runs from 7-9pm Tuesday nights on WUAG 103.1fm in Greensboro, North Carolina, is putting on a film series that runs on the first Wednesday of every month.
Created as a way to get Triad residents excited about the great cinematic viewing alternatives taking place in North Carolina, The Mixed Tape Film Series is a love letter to people who enjoy great movies.
Like a mixed tape, the series will feature an eclectic line-up of films, carefully selected by Mike and I. We spent hours drafting and editing this list down to a core of films we think people should enjoy a great deal. The best part is that many of these titles are ones that few people have had the chance to see on the big screen in 35mm.
So if you’re looking for cheap admission, drink specials, and a film retrospective that will never rip you off with crude digital projections of DVD’s, check us out. All of our regular screenings take place at the Carousel Luxury Cinemas (1305 Battleground Ave.) on the first Wednesday of every month, plus a special Halloween Double Feature on October 30.
Check out the film line-up here.
Historia de un Letrero (The Story of a Sign)
Submitted to the Short Film Online Competition, Cannes 2008
Director: Alonso Alvarez Barreda
UPDATE: After I connected with Alonso on Facebook, he wrote back something I thought pertinent for sharing here:
[...] I always wanted to make this film because I believe in the power of the story, I always thought that it was worth telling it, because I really believe that it carries within a message of love, peace and above all, hope. [...]
Thanks again for the film, Alonso.
(via Jason Pierce)
The Wackness
It’s the summer of 1994 and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop and wafting with the sweet aroma of marijuana — but change is in the air. The newly inaugurated mayor, Rudy Giuliani, is beginning to implement his anti-fun initiatives against “crimes” like noisy portable radios, graffiti and public drunkenness. Set against this backdrop, Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) spends his last summer before college selling dope throughout New York City, trading it with his shrink (Ben Kingsley) for therapy, while crushing on his step-daughter (Olivia Thirlby). Famke Janssen, Mary Kate Olsen and Method Man round out the cast in this edgy, bittersweet, and funny coming of age story.
Ok, so the folks over at The Wackness HQ are looking to give away a few CDs of the soundtrack to their movie (releasing tomorrow) and would like DMP to run a small contest. I don’t usually do these kinds of things, but for a Hip Hop head, it’s a decent looking soundtrack.
Here’s the track list:
Not a bad line-up, huh? The movie could very well be ass, but the tracks have me remembering my 6th year in college.
Ok, so let’s do it like this — tell me the A & B side track names of the Wu Tang single that instantly launched the crew into the Hip Hop spotlight in 1993 and win a copy of the soundtrack.
Email me at sean [at] dotmatrixproject [dot] com with your answer.
UPDATE: We have a winner — Matt W. sent in the correct answer, “Protect Ya Neck” & “Method Man”
Thanks for the emails.
Time lapse music video of a 7 day road trip from LA to NYC in 4 minutes by Oliver “Twist” Gondry and younger brother, Michel Gondry.
Listen to more of Lacquer on Last.fm
UPDATE: We’re shooting to have the music videos in play on July 7th, but that date is not absolutely solid. More soon…
Rob McHone, Director of Operations for the Carousel Cinemas on Battleground Ave in Greensboro, is a big supporter of independent filmmakers and the local film community.
The back half of his building — the four theaters surrounding The Bistro — is dedicated to showing independent, foreign and art films, even though the demand for such films isn’t anywhere near the demand for Hollywood films. Rob is also about to launch a collaborative blog as part of his new web presence, where he plans on engaging with local filmmakers by offering free access to the theater for their every now and then take on movies, film, movie-making and similar type posts.
I tell you all this because quite recently, Rob agreed to partner with the dotmatrix project to help spread the word of free, live, original music in downtown Greensboro, while exposing the talent of local filmmakers. Check out this very cool community cross-promotion:
We’re probably going to have a yearly show over there as well, showcasing the music videos created over the course of the previous year. Not quite sure how that’ll work, but it’ll definitely be set up as a huge public thanks to all the hard work put in by our ever evolving and talented media crew.
If you’re a Triad filmmaker and this project sounds like something you’d like to become involved with, check us out. And if you’re a local entrepreneur with your own ideas for cross-promoting the dotmatrix project — we’re putting out live albums and show photographs as well — feel free to hit me up at sean {at} dotmatrixproject {dot} com.
I’d love to chat with you.
(originally uploaded by Rikke Moltisanti)
If you think you can capture the essence of a live show like in the above picture, we need to talk. Same thing goes for filmmakers with the following video:
Sorry About Dresden: Shake Your Fist from Sean Coon on Vimeo.
We’re putting on a monthly show in the Back Bar of The Green Burro in downtown Greensboro. The bands are playing for free, a sound engineer is recording the live show for free, photographers are shooting for free and filmmakers are shooting/editing music videos for free.
Cost of admission: FREE
The idea is that if we all collaborate to create art and release it into the wild — online and off — we’ll be opening doors for each other that might never have been opened otherwise. And over time, if people dig the concept, maybe we can turn it into a sponsored event with a sustainable business model to support live, local music in downtown Greensboro.
Along these lines, we’re looking to build a community of photographers and filmmakers interested in participating at least one time. That means you’ll be joining up with a media team and collaborating with the bands before the show on shot ideas. If you want to do more than one show, we’ll do our best to schedule it. If you want to work with a specific filmmaker, photographer or band, we’ll do our best to accommodate that as well.
We’re good like that.
Photographers: We’re looking to meet photographers who have access to DSLR cameras and can really craft a shot. If you have a great eye, you’re in. There’s no pledging involved, no hazing, no sleeping with farm animals. And while that last sentence read like an extremely male perspective on stupid things adolescent men might have to do in order to join something potentially cool — though this ain’t a corny frat — we’d definitely like the talented ladies in our community to participate just as much, if not more. So I promise, no more horrible analogies, ladies.
So if you’re interested in participating, please follow these two steps:
Filmmakers: While we’d like to have professional filmmakers participate on the project, we’re very open to amateur filmmakers and videographers. All we ask is that you know how to use a modern digital video camera, have a good eye and have at least some experience editing on non-linear systems. dotmatrix HQ has a digital editing bay with Final Cut Pro, so you’ll be able to edit with your co-filmmaker on top notch equipment.
If you’d like to join up, please follow these two steps:
Cross-Promotions We’re currently working on finalizing deals with local establishments to cross-promote the material created from the show. I don’t want to jinx the potential deals in the works by naming names, but I will say that we’re close to finalizing we’ve finalized a deal where a major movie theater with Carousel Cinemas on Battleground in Greensboro to present still shots and music videos from our show prior to the trailers run before each film shown in the theater. We’re also working on establishing a quarterly photo exhibit in a well known downtown venue to present the best shots of the previous three shows.
Both of these cross-promotions are in the works to market the name and work of our participating media creators.
So are you down or what!?
DOGS of CHINATOWN internet trailer 1 from All Aces Media on Vimeo.
This is looking pretty damn stylish. Sin City’ish even. Great job, fellas!
Two years ago this month, I had the pleasure of catching the world premiere of The War Tapes at the Tribeca Film Festival as a guest of the director, Deborah Scranton.
If you’ve never seen TWT, the style and genre can only be described as Documentary 2.0 — soldiers on the front lines with cameras affixed to their shoulders, guns, the hoods of their vehicles, telling their stories while you watch what goes down, with Deborah IM’ing them each night from across the world to coordinate the progress of the film.
Tomorrow evening, Deborah’s latest film, BAD VOODOO’S WAR, will be broadcast by FRONTLINE at 9 P.M. ET on PBS.
If you miss the broadcast tomorrow night, be sure to catch the film, streaming, on the Frontline website.
Congratulations, Deb!
