The Wholphin Blog
New in Cinemad magazine
Interview with CAM ARCHER
Whose “Wild Tigers I Have Known” opens this weekend in NYC.
“Are you using mountain lions to repesent something like the horrible ages of puberty coming for the characters? Or is a lion just a lion? Puberty is a lion, I like that. Originally, the lion was supposed to represent the outcast, or the thing thing we know nothing about, but are told to despise and want dead. So Logan identifies with the lion, feels surrounded by the ‘tigers’ at his school, and wants nothing more than to be left alone, living independently of the madness, the close mindedness and the hatred. I don’t know, it made sense when I wrote it.
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Puberty is a fucking beast, isn’t it? It’s just a question of when that beast’s going to visit you and then when it’s going to be done with you.â€?
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Also new: more rants about short films
“why do film schools try to teach students by showing them features and then expecting them to emulate what they have learned inside of a short?�
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New, not old:
Interview with STEPHANIE BARBER
“Had there been times when you were showing your films that made you want more crowd participation? No, I never watch my films when people are watching. Too scared. [laughs]
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But I just like that there’s something unbelievably lonely about speaking to a movie.�
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And
Interview with BILL DANIEL
“It’s a weird thing about documentaries in general, it’s so strangely possessive of people’s souls. The Native Americans had it right: you definitely capture someone’s soul in a photograph, and it’s even worse in a film and even worse in a documentary.
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You’re carrying around this bizarre psychic responsibility when you put somebody in a documentary.�
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Cool festivals now taking submissions:
Madcat
New York Underground
And in LA, REDCAT is showing some incredible hard-to-find films in their “Where Did Our Love Go?� A Series of Films by Women� program, including the legendary WANDA by Barbara Loden.
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Enjoy,
Mike
Publisher