Twitter, BFI and Cassavetes

To continue with my jump over to film blogging this month I would like to mention an incident that happened via Twitter this week.


The BFI (British Film Institute) were running a Twitter-based competition on the original American indie-director John Cassavetes.  Cassavetes was someone who I studied in great detail when studying so it was all but necessary for me to reply to the BFI's tweet, which asked anyone to mention their favourite Cassavetes film.

I responded with Shadows and a short snippet about why I loved it.  In fact, Shadows was the first film that I had ever written a published essay on.  I was in the second year of my BA, studying Modernist Cinema, and had written an essay on the use of music in the films of Cassavetes and Visconti.  The printed essay was shorter and only focused on the use of music and Cassavetes' Shadows.

The essay can be read here.

Cassavetes on Cassavetes was the prize. Excellent.

Also, the BFI are releasing all of Cassavetes' films on Blu-Ray.

What is really fantastic about this little story is that I am still quite new to Twitter, so I must be doing something right!  Find me here.

-PM

Back to it!

For the past month I seemed to have been bogged down in thinking about photography, reading about and writing about photography (applying for funding for projects). As important as each of those actions are they do not compare to taking and making photographs.

I had lost sight of project work and was wallowing in word documents. No longer! I made a point of getting back to it today, back to the frontline with cameras in hand. Bertha (my medium format Yashica) was out for the occasion, functioning as my mechanical muse and walking companion. Twelve shots later and I was home again, contented and refocused on image making. Keep an eye out for a Godzilla in high heels appearing in the stream shortly...

Tomorrow I am off to the Glens of Antrim, once again I will be focusing on the affected woodland areas and P.ramorum.

More soon. This new vigour will probably spill out here, Twitter and Instagram...

-PM

On Twitter!

I have finally added Twitter to my social networking toolbox. It made sense, and I had only been putting it off for years... (._. )

Well, I am on there now! @PeterMarley_

[Me, on the set of Boys From County Hell, recoding some EPK footage - Feb 2012]

In other news I have discovered a time capsule of photos from Japan that I was urged to sit on back in 2008. Thank you Twy! Looking at the 1000+ images now much more than I ever would have back then. Although I did post a few of the photos up here when I go back there were so many I glossed over. So this felt like returning to a box of contact sheets!

As a result I might make a short film/slideshow containing the images and the (unseen) videos from the 2008 trip to Japan.

More soon!

-PM