You simply cannot go wrong with lightning or storms when making a movie, either fictional (just as John Carpenter or James Cameron) or documentary as in Jennifer Baichwal‘s (Manufactured Landscapes) latest. It is curious that the trailer here does not show more ‘money shots,’ because there is plenty of great lightning footage (captured over a period of three years by the filmmakers, and also found footage) on display in in the full film. The trailer does, however, give a flavor of the human element, thus capturing the tone and the content of the film quite nicely. Sometimes there is truth in advertising, even when the advertising is for a film looking for truth in random acts of meteorological mayhem. The trailer for Act of God, a documentary of tales and thoughts from folks who have been struck by lightning, is after the jump. Enjoy.
- 5/7/2009
- by Kurt Halfyard
- Screen Anarchy
Back in the late 1970s as a young lad, one of my favourite summer past-times was sitting with the family on the stoop of our small condominium townhouse during those wild and crazy summer storms. Watching the lightning, feeling the thunder and daring friends and siblings to run out (prancing like fools) into the downpour and challenge the unlikely (but still finitely possible) event of a bolt of white tagging you into the next life. Kids feel pretty immortal and liberated in those endless summers. You do not think too hard about it, because well, in innocence (a form of arrogance) you have no concept of the consequences.
Enter Jennifer Baichwal, who won a number of awards and notice with her 2007 documentary Manufactured Landscapes. She points her camera on several folks from around the world who actually have been struck by lightening and have lived to tell the tale. The...
Enter Jennifer Baichwal, who won a number of awards and notice with her 2007 documentary Manufactured Landscapes. She points her camera on several folks from around the world who actually have been struck by lightening and have lived to tell the tale. The...
- 5/2/2009
- by Kurt Halfyard
- Screen Anarchy
The 2009 Hot Docs lineup has officially been announced and I'm extremely excited. For one, this will be a good opportunity to catch up on many of the films I missed at Sundance. Also, I'm currently not working, so I will have all of free time to dedicate to the festival. Nice. Luckily, there's a shit ton of movies that I'm interested in, so it won't be hard to fill out my schedule (It never really is). I've posted some crucial picks below, but you can also check out the full schedule for yourself over at the Hot Docs website [1]. What are you looking forward to this year? Objectified [2] Directed by Gary Hustwit [3] From telephones to toothpicks, nearly everything that fills our world is designed. Objects look and work the way they do because someone made them that way. Director Gary Hustwit examines industrial design's sweeping cultural impact with the same...
- 3/25/2009
- by Jay C.
- FilmJunk
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