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March 19, 2007
Sarasota
The best part about SXSW was hanging out with so many friends at the films and parties and (more commonly, it seemed) on the sidewalks outside of films and parties. It looks like more of the same is in store, because roughly everybody that was in Austin last week is going to be in Florida for the 9th Annual Sarasota Film Festival in mid-April. The just-announced lineup includes Hannah Takes The Stairs, Quiet City, Silver Jew, Great World Of Sound, Kurt Cobain About A Son, and also, in the shorts programs, Some Analog Lines and The Outlaw Son.
I'm really excited - not just because I've got two films in one festival, but because they're in such amazing company. Some Analog Lines is playing in the Animated Shorts program, alongside Don Hertzfeldt's Everything Will Be OK and Run Wrake's Rabbit, both of which are absolutely stunning. And The Outlaw Son - which I'm both tremendously excited and somewhat terrified to watch with an audience - is in the Vintage And Vanguard program, alongside Ray Tintori's Death To Tinman (a brilliant short I wrote about here, and which I saw for the fifth or sixth time at SXSW) and a new film from Jay Rosenblatt, called Afraid So. Jay's film The Phantom Limb was my second favorite film of 2005, and was a big inspiration when I was making Some Analog Lines.
The lineup is pretty impressive; I love some of the programs, which include Faith On Film (including, appropriately, Silver Jew) and The Shape Of Things To Come: Architecture, Development And Design On Film. Schedule pending, I really hope I can catch Jessica Yu's Performance, Tony Kaye's Lake Of Fire, Jennifer Baichwal's Manufactured Landscapes and Sophie Fienne's Pervert’s Guide To Cinema. And who could pass up any opportunity to see Tati's Playtime on the big screen? And I'm looking forward to seeing everyone again, too. It's going to be a fun week.
On a related note, I completely forgot to mention - because I completely forgot to remember - that Some Analog Lines screened with a selection of video work at The New Genre Art Festival. I've come to love the fact that, aside from SXSWClick, it's never played in any documentary category, and I hope it continues to evade any strict definition...
Posted by David Lowery at March 19, 2007 8:47 PM
Comments
congrats on the festival plays, man!
Posted by: frank Mosley at March 20, 2007 3:42 AM
sweet! congrats david
Posted by: brad at March 20, 2007 7:34 AM
watching the back of your head watching Ms. Newsom play the piano made me incredibly happy, because i knew how happy it made you. more fun to come in Sarasota. can't wait to see both of your films!
Posted by: tully at March 20, 2007 11:45 AM
right on, david!!! congrats on sarasota! I've been lagging hard on submitting my film pretty much anywhere, but that's a damn good one... So rock on! All the best, R
Posted by: r at March 20, 2007 12:57 PM
Congratulations! When do I get to see Outlaw Son?
Posted by: Paul at March 20, 2007 2:57 PM
There's a version that's pretty close to the one playing in Sarasota available here; one of these days, I'll get around to uploading the longer version. I'm going to be making DVDs to hand out in Sarasota, though, so I can send you a copy.
Posted by: Ghostboy at March 20, 2007 3:14 PM
Yay I'm glad you are coming to Sarasota. I look forward to seeing your shorts. Hahaha that just sounds funny.
Dill
Posted by: Dill at April 5, 2007 10:06 PM