Jordan M. Smith: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”…
Bill Ross: Richard Slotkin lectures on itunes. Terry Allen’s album “Juarez”. Dusty and Sweets McGee.
Smith: Tchoupitoulas seemed like a nod to the late documentary filmmaker Les Blank, chronicler of Americana of all shapes and sizes. You’ve mentioned that with Western you are also trying to approach the western genre of filmmaking through the lense of Americana. Did Blank, or any other artists/filmmakers influence you at anytime during the process?
B. Ross: Yes, Les’s spirit – both as a person, and as a filmmaker, has been an inspiration to us as documentary filmmakers, and as human beings. There’s a brief but great moment of him drinking a beer by his camera in his border film Chulas Fronteras. That said something to us. This isn’t just about making films its about life experience and being present in the moment.
Bill Ross: Richard Slotkin lectures on itunes. Terry Allen’s album “Juarez”. Dusty and Sweets McGee.
Smith: Tchoupitoulas seemed like a nod to the late documentary filmmaker Les Blank, chronicler of Americana of all shapes and sizes. You’ve mentioned that with Western you are also trying to approach the western genre of filmmaking through the lense of Americana. Did Blank, or any other artists/filmmakers influence you at anytime during the process?
B. Ross: Yes, Les’s spirit – both as a person, and as a filmmaker, has been an inspiration to us as documentary filmmakers, and as human beings. There’s a brief but great moment of him drinking a beer by his camera in his border film Chulas Fronteras. That said something to us. This isn’t just about making films its about life experience and being present in the moment.
- 2/6/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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