ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Facets, Chicago 11/29/23

Let's make some movies!  From Nov 2019 until end of Dec 2020 I am going to try to make several movies - under the project name Brooklyn Microbudget Features.  Basically no budget/ultra low budget/DIY movies.  #1 in the series is Werewolf Ninja Philosopher .  #2 will be SLOW ROMANCE - now in production, expected to be completed at the end of Nov 2019.  Should be interesting.  More info, clips, stills, trailers as things get done. - Sujewa

Experimental film by Jean-Luc Godard.  2014 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winner.  A story of a dog, wrapped in an essay film about philosophical questions, and questions about history, also a story about one or more couples, with nudity, filmed in multiple video formats, with beautiful shots of several places in Europe - specially one of a ship on a body of water.  A challenging and interesting movie.  Filmed by a crew of 3 (including the director). Goodbye To Language from kinolorber on Vimeo .

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From TIFF YouTube page: "Featuring films by Philipp Fleischmann, Charlotte Prodger, Mike Gibisser, and Pedro Neves Marques.Structures of display and containment, both physical and figurative, form the core of this programme, whose works — by turns fluid, cryptic, coded, and diaristic — refute many binaries: interior/exterior, personal/public, lion/lioness." Read the rest here -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_MRkZymXK0

 * From TIFF YouTube page - "Bookended by stunning astral compositions, this programme explores the elemental as informed by myths, legends, dreams, and cosmic forces. With films by Kevin Jerome Everson, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Sky Hopinka, Britany Gavelly & Ken Linehan, Jodie Mack, Lina Rodriguez, and Malena Szlam."

 

Get all info, tickets here -  https://www.facets.org/cinematheque/films/july2019/werewolf.php From the page - " Werewolf Ninja Philosopher   is a deadpan minimalist, underground noir comedy which succeeds by its stylistic audacity and peculiar rhythms that recall the early work of Jim Jarmusch. Since the werewolf ninja philosopher is also an expert martial artist, his philosophical outlook makes it clear that there is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness.   Werewolf Ninja Philosopher   is sardonic and witty as well as an affectionate homage of the detective genre, with easily identifiable visual and narrative conventions that any gumshoe would enjoy, even if he is a werewolf. Directed by Sujewa Ekanayake, U.S.A., 2018, 72 mins. FACETS FILM DIALOGUE: Filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake will be here for Q&A after all of the screenings Friday, July 19–Monday, July 22. Lead actor Art Shrian Tiwari will be here for Q&A after all of the screenings F