Chris Marker's Sans Soleil is beyond brilliant and is always an inspiration, Godard, it goes without saying, although Audrey chafes at the obviousness, still though Contempt...Fellini (8 1/2), Antonioni (The Passenger!), Fassbinder (Beware of a Holy Whore), Kaurismaki (La Vie de Boheme), Gaspar Noe (Irreversible), Von Trier (Breaking the Waves, The Idiots), Wong Kar Wei (Happy Together), Samantha Morton (Morvern Callar) and what happened, why no more films...Easy Rider, Blade Runner, Battle Royale, Fulltime Killer, Straw Dogs, The Tenant, Sherman's March, Gimme Shelter, Weather Underground, American Movie, Alien, Last Tango in Paris, David Lynch, Maya Deren...recently we quite liked There Will be Blood and Sarah Polley's Away From Her was far more brutal than any movie by the Coen brothers, ever. We also love sci fi in general and monster movies.
Television
Battlestar Galactica, Entourage, Cracker, The Wire, Wire in the Blood, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Dr. Who, Lost, Eureka. We love television when it's great, what beats having a season of a great show on DVD, there's nothing quite like it. We love HBO. I can't quite figure out why we don't have it. Oh that's right, we're broke.
Books
Pynchon, DeLillo, Fitzgerald, Salinger, Gaitskill, Dick, Hunter S. Thompson, David Foster Wallace, Murakami, Chandler, Natsuo Kirin, I want Rachel Klein to write another book (please), and Simon Ford's Wreckers of Civilization is what all books about music movements or art scenes should aspire to.
Also, we love video games. There should be a section for that.
Heroes
People who challenge the status quo, not head on because the machine is too large, but by coming around the corner, out of the corner of its eye. People who see the everyday mechanisms in society that go unnoticed, the collective agreements that benefit the few. The people who recognize and engage the unseen but strongly felt with more than anger, without specific agenda other than to have them recognized, to make them known, those who can observe and share their observation with wit, with metaphor, with abstractions and juxtapositions which allow others to find a truth in their own way...ok yes, I believe the word you use for these people is "artists." In a few enclaves of truth there are people adding to the world, a world in which so few people or things add positively to it. But of course, to survive as an artist means dealing with a pretty ugly world, and not becoming corrupted in that world, well that's a feat.
Until the Light Takes Us is a feature length documentary chronicling the history, ideology and aesthetic of Norwegian black metal - a musical subculture infamous as much for a series of murders and church arsons as it is for its unique musical and visual aesthetics. This is the first (and only) film to truly shed light on a movement that has heretofore been shrouded in darkness and rumor and obscured by inaccurate and shallow depictions. Featuring exclusive interviews and verité with the musicians, a wealth of rare, seldom seen footage from the "Black Circle"s earliest days, Until the Light Takes Us explores every aspect of the controversial movement that has captured the attention of the world. This is the movie that gets inside the minds and hearts of black metal's musicians. The filmmakers moved to Norway, living and filming there for two years. The movie is not about them though - it's about the extraordinary people and events that make black metal unique, unforgettable, and inevitable. This is black metal as seen through the eyes of those who created it, of those who live it, of those who are at the center of the story of black metal. Featuring: Gylve "Fenriz" Nagell, Varg Vikernes, Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg, Kjetil "Frost" Haraldstad, Ivar Bjornson, Abbath and Demonaz Doom Occulta, Kris "Garm" Rygg, Bjarne Melgaard, Harmony Korine, and more. The film, shot on 35 mm and dv, is directed and produced by Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites. It is currently being edited in New York.
Who I'd like to meet: A Field Pictures Production
In Association with The Group Entertainment
In Association with Artists Public Domain
Until the Light Takes Us
Directed by Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell
Produced by Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites
Cinematography by Odd Reinhardt Nicolaysen
and Audrey Ewell
Additional camera by Ellen Lande and Aaron Aites
35mm cinematography by Odd Reinhardt Nicolaysen
and Calle Borresen
Sound by John Harlow, Oyvind Rydland,
Robin Coulthard and Kjetil Hoidal
Edited by Andrew Ford
Co-Edited by Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites
Michael Dimmit and Ulysses Guidotti
Worldwide Sales by Stephen Oxman
for Film Sales Company
copyright 2008 Until the Light Productions, LLC
I am very much looking forward to this film and hope that it will be widely distributed. You seem very fair and ballanced unlike the author of Lords of Chaos
