Heading downstairs to go to set. Feeling excited, jittery, still calm, and mostly a sense of “Wow.” More…
Day 62: First Day of Shooting by
Monthly Archives: July 2011
The Stonewall Celebration by
We sent Onur Karaoglu, the KTLO in-house video master to the legendary Stonewall bar in NYC’s West Village, on June 24th, the night when the marriage equality bill finally passed the New York State Senate, making marriage legal across the Empire State. A crowd of people had gathered after the annual Village Drag March, which finishes it’s route in front of the bar each year. When the news came across the wire, the crowd had even more cause for celebration. Enjoy.
Day 61: Calm/The Handheld Shot by
We start shooting tomorrow and I feel surprisingly, happily calm. Yesterday I had time to go to Banana Republic and buy a few button down shirts for the shoot. It’s like the day before going to camp. I like to know what my uniform is going to be and I feel comfortable knowing I have a set of new, clean shirts to wear each day. I met this afternoon with Fonzie, my dear editor, and we caught up on life (briefly) and then I wanted to show him a lot of the films I’ve been talking with Thimios about the last few days. Close study of Pialat—the subtle differences between L’enfance Nue and Loulou, for example—still reveals things to me. And still leads me to new shots and strategies of approaching our film. I need to talk this afternoon with Thimios about the use of the handheld shot, which he resists like the plague. More…
Day 51: Everything Needs To Be Essential by
It seems to be a running theme. I’m exhausted. I think it’s the tenth day of 12-14 hour days and, though I’m mostly feeling lucky, today I also feel like I might collapse here in the office. But no time, or interest, in melodrama. Thimios is stuck in Ottawa, awaiting his visa. The locations are sort of finding their way, sort of not. We get one in the morning (the video porn shop), we lose one in the afternoon (a high end fashion boutique in the Meatpacking District that wanted $3000!—so much for supporting queer cinema). More…