In a forgotten region of Southern Italy, projected against a sweeping cliff overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea, La Guarimba International Film Festival screens a dynamic program of boundary-pushing short films — all at no cost to an eclectic audience of Catholic nonnas and independent filmmakers from around the globe. Amantea is a tiny seaside town in Calabria, the poorest region in Italy and one of the poorest in all of Europe. Every summer, La Guarimba floods the town with young cinephiles and adventurous Italian tourists. But the provocative, inclusive, and avant-garde programming is sometimes more challenging than the audience may have bargained for.
Now in its seventh year, La Guarimba has played short films from nearly every continent, earned the support of the Ministry of Culture and U.S. Embassy, and showcased nearly 50 films that later earned a Vimeo Staff Pick badge, one of the highest honors a short can receive in the internet age.
Now in its seventh year, La Guarimba has played short films from nearly every continent, earned the support of the Ministry of Culture and U.S. Embassy, and showcased nearly 50 films that later earned a Vimeo Staff Pick badge, one of the highest honors a short can receive in the internet age.
- 3/29/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
If you've ever fancied yourself as a movie producer but thought that it seemed like an awful lot of hassle, read on! Warp Films, All Tomorrow's Parties festival and director Vincent Moon have launched a kickstarter.com campaign to help fund four short films shot at the festival. It sounds like a pretty interesting venture, with your dosh going towards editing, sound mixing and more. You can donate as little as $1/£0.65p, and for those pledging $10/£6.42 or more get the chance for exclusive preview access and other...
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- 10/3/2011
- by Matt Maytum
- TotalFilm
Enjoy some tasty take-aways in the form of the original – and the best – guerrilla gig videos
Five years ago, French director Vincent Moon took Us indie rockers the Spinto Band into the basement of their record label's Paris office and filmed them performing a song. That was the first recording for the Take-Away Shows, in which artists are filmed playing in unusual locations, in one take. There are now more than 270 Take-Away Shows available at blogotheque.net, featuring big-name acts including Mumford & Sons, Phoenix, Sigur Rós and Foals alongside acts you've probably never heard of before and never will again. Either way, they're always worth watching – in fact, even more so than usual this week, as the site has broken the mould with a lavish presentation of Us experimentalists Battles unleashing a sprawling math rock instrumental amid chandeliers and statues in Paris's city hall. The stunning results are, as the film-makers say,...
Five years ago, French director Vincent Moon took Us indie rockers the Spinto Band into the basement of their record label's Paris office and filmed them performing a song. That was the first recording for the Take-Away Shows, in which artists are filmed playing in unusual locations, in one take. There are now more than 270 Take-Away Shows available at blogotheque.net, featuring big-name acts including Mumford & Sons, Phoenix, Sigur Rós and Foals alongside acts you've probably never heard of before and never will again. Either way, they're always worth watching – in fact, even more so than usual this week, as the site has broken the mould with a lavish presentation of Us experimentalists Battles unleashing a sprawling math rock instrumental amid chandeliers and statues in Paris's city hall. The stunning results are, as the film-makers say,...
- 5/25/2011
- by Chris Salmon
- The Guardian - Film News
If you supply the audience, Efterklang will screen their new film in your home – so Maddy Costa did just that
'We're really on a mission here," declares Rasmus Stolberg, the neatly moustachioed bassist for Efterklang. "Our challenge has never been about writing that love tune that will make everyone cry. It's about making music that could take people to a new place – and taking that music to new places."
Efterklang are hardly the first indie band to espouse such lofty ambitions: few, however, act upon them with such aplomb. The Danish quartet's 2007 album, Parades, was a symphonic extravaganza that came into its own when performed live with a chamber orchestra. As well as running their own record label, Rumraket, the band co-ordinate a youth project, Efterkids, designed to encourage schoolchildren across the globe to take up a musical instrument. For their latest trick, they've made An Island, a 40-minute film...
'We're really on a mission here," declares Rasmus Stolberg, the neatly moustachioed bassist for Efterklang. "Our challenge has never been about writing that love tune that will make everyone cry. It's about making music that could take people to a new place – and taking that music to new places."
Efterklang are hardly the first indie band to espouse such lofty ambitions: few, however, act upon them with such aplomb. The Danish quartet's 2007 album, Parades, was a symphonic extravaganza that came into its own when performed live with a chamber orchestra. As well as running their own record label, Rumraket, the band co-ordinate a youth project, Efterkids, designed to encourage schoolchildren across the globe to take up a musical instrument. For their latest trick, they've made An Island, a 40-minute film...
- 3/4/2011
- by Maddy Costa
- The Guardian - Film News
Filmmaker Vincent Moon has labelled members of Arcade Fire as "disgusting". The director, who shot a tour documentary about the group in 2008 called Miroir Noir, said they were "not good people" and had a "mainstream" approach to making music. "They're not good people, that's it. And I don't mean the whole band - I mean the leaders of the band and their management," Moon told Eye Weekly. "What I hate about the band now is that people call them an indie band and they're not an indie band, they are (more)...
- 2/2/2011
- by By Robert Copsey
- Digital Spy
Filmaker Vincent Moon has labelled members of Arcade Fire as "disgusting". The director, who shot a tour documentary about the group in 2008 called Miror Noir, said they were "not good people" and had a "mainstream" approach to making music. "They're not good people, that's it. And I don't mean the whole band - I mean the leaders of the band and their management," Moon told Eye Weekly. "What I hate about the band now is that people call them an indie band and they're not an indie band, they are (more)...
- 2/2/2011
- by By Robert Copsey
- Digital Spy
After teaming up with La Blogothéque impresario Vincent Moon for Adelia, I Want To Love, a short film about a nonagenarian’s first contact with post-rock, Mogwai went in front of the guerilla filmmaker’s cameras again for a concert film titled Burning, which casts the Glaswegians’ precipitous peaks and troughs of feedback-laden noise in appropriately stark black and white. Special Moves is the audio accompaniment to that film, and the first live release from a band known for its galvanizing stage show, here boiled down to the most recognizable songs from six full-lengths, and delivered in a blustery ...
- 8/24/2010
- avclub.com
Burning, Mogwai’s concert film collaboration with Vincent Moon and Nathanael Le Scouarnac, will hit U.S. screens this fall. Following its release on August 24th (packaged with accompanying live album Special Moves), there will be full screenings of the film in multiple locations around the country. More cities will be announced, so please stay tuned for more details!
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- 6/16/2010
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
When I first started the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, it was a hard sell. But the loyal support of our fans has helped us defy the cynics and become a live music institution
I started All Tomorrow's Parties 10 years ago because I wanted to give people an alternative to Reading and Glastonbury. When we started the event, a booker for one of the bigger festivals declared Atp would go down like a lead balloon: "Who in their right mind would pay £100 to go to an out-of-season holiday camp to see a load of indie bands that no one has heard of?"
It wasn't easy getting this off the ground and I'm surprised it's turned into a full-time job. But with three festivals a year in the UK, one in New York and offshoot events in Australia and Spain, we must have done something right to have kept this ship afloat for so long.
I started All Tomorrow's Parties 10 years ago because I wanted to give people an alternative to Reading and Glastonbury. When we started the event, a booker for one of the bigger festivals declared Atp would go down like a lead balloon: "Who in their right mind would pay £100 to go to an out-of-season holiday camp to see a load of indie bands that no one has heard of?"
It wasn't easy getting this off the ground and I'm surprised it's turned into a full-time job. But with three festivals a year in the UK, one in New York and offshoot events in Australia and Spain, we must have done something right to have kept this ship afloat for so long.
- 11/26/2009
- The Guardian - Film News
On October 27th, R.E.M. will be releasing Live At The Olympia, a 39-song, two CD set containing "working rehearsals" from 2007. Taken from five nights of live "tests" at the Dublin venue and culminating in the group's Accelerate album, these recordings document R.E.M.'s "experiment in terror" during which the band played before friends, family, fan club supporters, and lucky fans from across the globe. "We were just trying to do something we hadn't done before," says guitarist Peter Buck, "which meant there was no relaxing during the set. Every second we were playing something we didn't know all that well, which was kind of good. There were all sorts of terror elements going on during that show." A CD/DVD variant also will debut with backstage footage directed by filmmakers Vincent Moon and Jeremiah. As a teaser for the upcoming release,...
- 9/14/2009
- by Mike Ragogna
- Huffington Post
London -- Composer Michael Nyman is making edited tracks of "The Embrace" and "Lost and Found" from his score to "The Piano" available to a group of short filmmakers.
The tracks are being made available for use in shorts made by members of Shooting People, a networking organization dedicated to the support and promotion of independent filmmaking.
Nyman will be one of the judges in the organization's June film of the month competition and said he will be looking for the most creative and original use of his soundtrack when picking a winner.
Members who use the track and upload the resulting film to Shooting People by Aug. 12, will have a chance to win a personal endorsement from Nyman, as well as a Final Cut Pro training package from the Frontline Club.
Previous judges have included Mike Figgis, Morgan Spurlock, Stuart Beattie, Martha Fiennes and Vincent Moon.
The tracks are being made available for use in shorts made by members of Shooting People, a networking organization dedicated to the support and promotion of independent filmmaking.
Nyman will be one of the judges in the organization's June film of the month competition and said he will be looking for the most creative and original use of his soundtrack when picking a winner.
Members who use the track and upload the resulting film to Shooting People by Aug. 12, will have a chance to win a personal endorsement from Nyman, as well as a Final Cut Pro training package from the Frontline Club.
Previous judges have included Mike Figgis, Morgan Spurlock, Stuart Beattie, Martha Fiennes and Vincent Moon.
- 6/2/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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