Maya Deren, Jean Cocteau, Hayao Miyazaki, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Jeanne Moreau, Guy Debord, Marcel Duchamp, Yvonne Rainer, Barbara Hammer, Jamie Babbit, Ulrike Ottinger.
Directors
Jean Cocteau, Maya Deren, Joan Chen, Ridley Scott, Ulrike Ottinger, Sarah Polley, Sally Potter, Hiyao Miyasaki, Mira Nair, Sadie Bening, Heddy Honigman, Wong Kar Wai, Yvonne Rainer, Patrick Tam, Spike Lee, Xiaolu Guo, Jia Zhangke, Julie Dash, Dario Argento.
Awards
Lauritzen Foundation, Stockholm: Cinema studies, Multiyear fellowship, doctoral studies in cinema, Stockholm University.
Festivals
Denver Underground Film Festival, Bay Area Burning Man, Boston Underground Film Festival, Boston Underground Film Festival, Frameline, Moorhead.
Professional Affiliations
Society of Cinema Studies, MLA, FIPRESCI, Swedish Film Critics Association, Women in Film and Television. Founder: Maya Deren Forum
Amy Hanaiali’i Gilliom, Um Kalthoum,Yoshida Brothers, Haris Alexiou, Vicki Randall, Metalchicks, Buffalo Daughter, Sotiria Bellou, Rembetika, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Edith Piaf, Dalida, Georges Brassens, The Staple Singers, Jefferson Airplane, Moby, Jacques Brel, LCD Soundsystem, Nirvana (Kurt Cobain), Anatomie Bousculaire, Bei-Bei, David Bowie, Barbra Streisand, Marie Callas, Jim Morrison, The Dixie Chicks. The best playlist artists from [Novaplanet.com]
in Paris.
Sotirio Bellou, the great Rembetika singer from Greece.
Anna Karina et Jean Paul Belmondo, 1965 - Charles Aznevour
Jodie Foster: "Je t'attends depuis la nuit des temps"
Anna Karina: Jamais je ne t'ai dit que je t'aimerai toujours (Pierrot le fou)
World cinema, particularly European and Asian cinema.
Teorema (Pier Paulo Pasolini), Caravaggio (Derek Jarman), La Notte (Michaelangelo Antonioni ), The Gospel According to St Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini), The Mother of Tears (Dario Argento) The White Mane (Albert Lamorisse), Pierre Le Fou (Jean Luc Godard), Vivre Ensemble (Anna Karina) IB Schmedes (Pigen og skoene) Jeanne Dielman (Chantelle Akerman) Bound (Wachowski Bros), Orlando (Sally Potter), Blood of a Poet (Cocteau) Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren), In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai), Freak Orlando (Ulrike Ottinger) Les Enfants Terribles (Jean Pierre Melville) , Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)Spirited Away - Princess Mononoke (Hiyao Miyasaki), Ki-duk Kim (3-Iron), Phaedra and Never on a Sunday (Jules Dassin) , Caro Diario (Nanni Morretti), Fellini Roma (Federico Fellini), Mama Roma (Pier Paulo Pasolini), Année dernière à Marienbad, (Alain Resnais), A Bout de Souffle (Godard), Kamikaze Girls (Tetsuya Nakashima), Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson) Suffocation (Bingjian Zhang),Hairspray (John Waters) & Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Tiger (Ang Lee). Sweeney Todd (Tim Burton), Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou). All this Our Exile (Patrick Tam),Road to San Diego (Carlos Sorin), Dans Paris (Christophe Honoré), The Ghosts of Cité de Soleil (Asgar Leth), The Host (Bomg Joon-ho), Forever (Heddy Honigman), Opera Jawa (Garin Nugroho), Lust, Caution (Ang Lee) & Adam Shankman), The Brave One (Neil Jordan).
The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Dexter, Mad Men, The Avengers, Kung Fu, The Practice, Hawaii Five O, Charlie's Angels, The L-Word, X-Files, Sopranos, Alias. Any recommendation by the incredibly gifted and knowledgeable film expert: Monica Sullivan, co-producer of Movie Magazine International (http://www.shoestring.org)
Books
Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope; Hayden Herrera: Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo; Kumiko Kakehashi: So Sad to Fall in Battle: An Account of War Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi's Letters from Iwo Jima; John W. Dower:Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II; Northern Lights: Bill Pullman, Herge: The Adventures of Tintin, Fulcanelli: Le Mystere des Cathedrales, Xialou Guo:The Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers, Hayao Miyazaki (manga), Maya Deren: Divine Horsemen, The 42nd Parallel: John Dos Passos, Cannery Row: John Steinbeck, Jane Fonda: My Life So Far.
Heroes
The creative matrix and everyone within it. Art is our most precious life force.
AKA Moira Sullivan: One of the world's leading experts on the work of avantgarde American filmmaker Maya Deren (1917-1961). Invited to speak in USA, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and Sweden about her work. Agree with Deren that a filmmaker has to make use of "the art instrument", camera and editing in order to create "something new". Make experimental films in the spirit of Deren's "personal film".
Maya Deren was an artistic filmmaker that not only made ethnographic films such as shooting 18 000 ft of Haitian rituals and secular dances in the 1940's and 1950's but a film called "Meditation on Violence" (1947), a film on Shao-lin and Wu Tang martial arts.
She was married to Teiji Ito who played over a dozen musical instruments. Beset by financial difficulties through most of her career, she produced and distributed all her own movies, and never gave up her art. Her ashes were scattered at Mt Fuji by Teiji Ito after her death in 1961. See my reviews of her films Maya Deren 2x, in Film International, promoting intellectual film culture since 1973.
Who I'd like to meet:
1)The Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom 2) Film Festival Programmers from Paris (Cineffable) and Brasil(Mix Brasil), San Francisco 3) Los Angeles filmmaker Tina Mabry, co-screenwriter of "Itty Bitty Titty Committee ", San Francisco.
Who I've Met at film festivals and screen events in San Francisco, Udine, Venice, Paris and Stockholm: Ingmar Bergman, Anna Karina, Dominique Blanc, Jean Moreau, Ulrike Ottinger, Takeshi Kitano, Takeshi Miike, Robert De Niro, Irene Pappas, Charlotte Rampling, Jeanne Moreau, David Lynch, Gena Rowlands, Lauren Bacall, Roman Polanski, John Carpenter, Kim Ki Duk, Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Jacqueline Bissett, Matthew Barney, Björk, Ellen Barkin, John Carpenter, Hayao Miyazaki, Mira Nair, Lena Endre, Harriet Andersson, Anita Ekberg, Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, Jamie Babbit.
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DATES THIS SUMMER FOR STOCKHOLM 2009
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Je suis Jean-Claude RODRIGUEZ, réalisateur de Rmi, long métrage indépendant (http://rmi-lefilm.skyrock.com/).
Je vous invite à voir et à revoir sans modération Rmi, diffusé sur la chaîne du câble LYONTV et sur le net (lyontv.fr) ( pour connaître les horaires de diffusion vous pouvez vous abonner à la newsletter sur lyontv.fr). N'hésitez pas à faire suivre ce message à tous vos amis afin de contribuer à l'émergence d'un nouveau projet de long métrage alternatif.
Merci par avance.
Amicalement,
JC.
MON INTERVIEW DANS LE MAGAZINE CULTUREL DU WEB !!!!
Découvrez ma première interview sur le magazine culturel du web jusqu’au 8/06 (n°30): www.ledoigtdansloeil.com à la rubrique décryptage.
...is well worth the read. I'm essentially convinced that Maya Deren's work contains the blueprint for a new cinema emerging in the outlands of independent film now (many many years after 'Meshes' and 'Ritual in Transfigured Time')--her influence is beginning to resonate with greater force than ever before. Have you ever looked at David Lynch's work in reference to her --the man has been virtually treading the same (non)narrative structures for years, and yet her importance to him has never been acknowledged.
Hello! When are you coming to London? I will go to the film festival. Did you go to see the theatre play? I can't remember the day it was. Hope to see you around London.mox
AKA Moira Sullivan: One of the world's leading experts on the work of avantgarde American filmmaker Maya Deren (1917-1961). Invited to speak in USA, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and Sweden about her work. Agree with Deren that a filmmaker has to make use of "the art instrument", camera and editing in order to create "something new".
1)The Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom 2) Film Festival Programmers from Paris (Cineffable) and Brasil(Mix Brasil), San Francisco 3) Los Angeles filmmaker Tina Mabry, co-screenwriter of "Itty Bitty Titty Committee ", San Francisco. 
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