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On Godard

Unspeakable sadness or reflective indifference to the passing of Jean-Luc Godard, a man I did not know. As he spoke after Truffaut’s passing “François is dead. Maybe I’m alive. There’s no difference, really, is there?” His cinema, continually redefining itself, was constant at least in its fracturing of time and space. So while Godard has…

Gossip Part 1 (also how I got into VFX)

I noticed my blog isn’t blowing up the internet yet so I’ve decided to pivot from this dry crap about style and Tarkovsky and get on with some steamy gossip. Stay tuned and in coming paragraphs I will reveal all dark, dank secrets happening on our movie sets (which are populated by cool people who…

On Style

For me one of the happiest tasks of making a film is deciding on the style. There are so many options and choices available for it, including even the thought of whether the style should be consistent throughout the movie. Will the style change? Will it differ throughout scenes? Will it change within scenes? How…

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