To market, to market to buy an indie film;
Home again, home again, jiggety-jim.
To market, to market, to buy a indie script;
Home again, home again, jiggety-jypt.
It’s the season for filmmakers to go to market. Get yourself to NYC September 19-23, 2010 for the IFP Filmmaker Conference, part of Independent Film Week. Sheila Nevins (President, HBO Documentary Films), Liz Rosenthal (Founder & Director, Power to the Pixel) and John Sloss (Founder, Cinetic) have been announced as the Independent Filmmaker Conference’s 2010 Keynotes. For Conference updates, schedule, and to purchase passes, go to www.filmmakerconference.com. IFP is a great organization that really helps out indie filmmakers. I can’t say how much I love them; they’re the fiscal sponsors of my documentary, which allows donors to generously support Finding Art in Dubai. Thanks heaps, and I hope to see you in NY!
Elaine McLuskey invented the “social spheres” speech bubbles so people could chat above the background noise in a noisy pub. Geekologie says they’re astronaut helmets that will help you get the girl or at least the freeze dried ice cream and Tang. They reminds us of Mer-chan’s canversate, where we try to allow intimate connections even in loud, crowded pubs. When you use it, you can actually feel the other person breathing. A cell phone doesn’t support that type of connection. And we’re in love with the girl in the on the right who is dishing the gossip and vibing Beth Ditto.
The feature length documentary Cultural Capital: Finding Art in Dubai examines the creative process in urban spaces and the socio-economic realities that challenge the sustainability of Dubai’s boom. The reality of a creative culture, like much of Dubai, is optimistic and still under construction.
How was Vanilla Ice when he finally performed? Too cold! As if you had to ask, but full details to come. Turning our attention to more artistic pursuits, what do you get when the Swiss Art Gate goes into a UAE hospital? The Tracking the Emirates art exhibition at the RAK Hospital. The opening is in a few days on April 7th, but we thought to give you a head’s up since Katy’s in the show, and the show is in Ras al Khaimah, “the top of the tent” of the UAE, quite beautiful but a little far out from Dubai.
As I lament the lack of public art in Dubai, sometimes the city surprises me and I stumble upon something even better — public performance art! While shooting Cultural Capital I caught some rather fantastic dancing, which I’ll share with you in the next few posts. For some reason, I often hear from people how joyless the region can be, and music and dancing is haram (not allowed). This video shows that public music and dancing is alive and kicking in Dubai. Near the gold souk, Chinese line dancers sashay in the shadow of the Twin Towers…only in Dubai.
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