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November 13, 2009

The Voyage Out

I left Austin this morning bright and early, somehow got through security with a straight razor on my person (leftover from my Halloween costume) and am now interred at the lovely Moonrise Hotel in St. Louis, waiting for my heart to arrive. St. Nick is screening tonight at 7:15 at the Tivoli Theater, as one of five films in the New Filmmakers Forum Competition. It's a screening that, it turns out, will be well attended by friends from all over the country who've somehow managed to wind up in this little Midwestern city for one night only.

I was talking to someone the other night and bemoaning the lack of diligence with which I've attended this page lately, but my self-pity was halfhearted. I've meant to write about A Serious Man, Where The Wild Things Are, That Evening Sun and even Gentleman Broncos, but the moments keep passing me by. It's always nice to disappear for a bit. I've cut two features in the past two months, and will be beginning a third before December begins (a Sci Fi Channel action movie?). One for the love, two for the money, but in all cases there's always that quiet (and, in the best instance, deafening) pleasure to be found in smashing little bits of footage together and making a fire. I can't wait to be doing it again on my own film.

But back to the matter at hand, which is tonight's screening, and the one on Sunday afternoon at Cucalorus, and the one the following weekend in Denver, and the two in Greece. I intend with all sincerity to document the next ten days on the festival circuit in full! I have to, in fact, because we were given a travel grant by the Austin Film Society and part of that involves creating some sort of recap of journeys to and fro for their website. I'm thinking a short film - but in the meantime, pictures, and lots of 'em, will suffice.

Posted by David Lowery at November 13, 2009 7:01 AM