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July 4, 2009

The 2nd Annual Mill House Film Festival

And now an interlude, as I ignore the prescient possibility of writing a full monograph on Trouble Every Day by tearing through the hills of Virginia on motorcycles. I'm out here once again at the Swanberg family manse, and tonight we held the the first night of the second annual Mill House Film Festival out on the grassy knolls. Friends and family gathered to watch such classics as Mike Brune's The Adventure, selected works by the Zellner and Duplass Brothers, and Benh Zeitlen's ubiquitous Glory At Sea. The audience is made up entirely of friends and neighbors and family members and folks who would otherwise never see these movies. The screen is a homemade construction of PVC pipe and canvas. The projector light is augmented by fireflies, which afterward are the closest thing to light pollution you might find out here. I think this officially counts as a vacation - especially since the internet doesn't really work, and there's no cellular coverage whatsoever. My phone died two days ago and I haven't even bothered to charge it.

Meanwhile, looking to the future: St. Nick will next be seen on July 24th in Seattle - a one night-only event at the ACT Theater, via the Raw Stock Short Film Festival. St. Nick, of course, is not a short, but I'm always a fan of crashing through boundaries of running time. I've never been to Seattle. More on this exciting story as it develops...

Posted by David Lowery at July 4, 2009 12:35 AM