This past March I followed UK band Fanfarlo to Austin for SXSW to create more than a documentary, but a conceptual exploration of the themes of their album, Reservoir (à la Tarkovsky/Wim Winders with a bit of Frederick Wiseman). This four-part series is what resulted:
Episode I + introduction - “A dizzying, endless round of plugging and unplugging gear, noodling around on stage and explaining to someone why, even though you don’t know yourself.” Episode II - “The Sexy Episode” they call it - “There’s something infantalising about being in a band in general, and being on tour specifically.” Episode III - In the Studio - A behind-the-scenes look at their studio re-working of ‘Atlas’ for ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ soundtrack. Episode IV - “The Honesty Episode” as they allude to it. “…marvel at Brian Gonzalez’s masterly camerawork and editing, once again doing a sterling job at making us look cooler by far than we actually are. Watching his films makes us want to be in Fanfarlo … which is lucky, I guess.”
“When a man dies, he is hard and insensitive -hardness and strength are death’s companions; weakness is an expression of the freshness of beings.” -Wim Wenders
at the beginning of the month I saw Margaret Cho at Radio City Music Hall and my face hurt from laughing so hard. she closed with this beloved hymn entitled “Eat Me Out”
All six collections, including the final 3, are on the sidebar.
Camera operators include yours truly and the amazing Adam Donald.
*special thanks to Rupert.
"The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thirlling adventure...it will be enjoyable because it will be true and new...the film of tomorrow will be an act of love." -Francois Truffaut
