"Lonesome" is a bold, yet endearing exploration of love and connection in today's digital age, marked by its minimalistic dialogue and expressive performances. The actors, through nuanced body language, skillfully convey their characters' emotional landscapes, making the story's message resonate even more powerfully with the audience. Tony K. Hall's dedication to this project-navigating the challenges of indie filmmaking over 26 months with an unpaid cast and crew-underscores the passion and perseverance necessary to will something like this to life in a small film market like Milwaukee. "Lonesome" is not just a clever film experiment, but a delightful celebration of the essence of indie filmmaking and the enduring quest for genuine human connection.
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Flatland: The Movie
(2007)
A Wonderful Piece of Scientific Mythology
24 December 2012
I loved how Dano and the production team got across very complex scientific concepts with a true, emotion-based Story with a capital "S". This is the kind of stuff we need more of.
I attended a talk at the 2012 Wisconsin Science Festival called "Science and Storytelling" and the presenter showed us a 30-minute film that was just like any other PBS documentary about a scientific concept. Sure, it had a loose narrative on how this discovery led to that breakthrough which led to this experiment, but that's not a STORY.
A story is what Dano Johnson has created with the FLATLAND films. A story has great characters, something at stake, and reversals of expectation.
The world of science doesn't have enough myths to its name -- but FLATLAND and FLATLAND 2: SPHERELAND are perfect contributions to that endeavor. As a storyteller/filmmaker myself, I found the FLATLAND films to be incredibly inspiring.
I attended a talk at the 2012 Wisconsin Science Festival called "Science and Storytelling" and the presenter showed us a 30-minute film that was just like any other PBS documentary about a scientific concept. Sure, it had a loose narrative on how this discovery led to that breakthrough which led to this experiment, but that's not a STORY.
A story is what Dano Johnson has created with the FLATLAND films. A story has great characters, something at stake, and reversals of expectation.
The world of science doesn't have enough myths to its name -- but FLATLAND and FLATLAND 2: SPHERELAND are perfect contributions to that endeavor. As a storyteller/filmmaker myself, I found the FLATLAND films to be incredibly inspiring.
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