Desiree, formally Dermaphoria, first premiered at the East End Film Festival to a great response and marked Ross Clarke’s directorial debut. “Cinemazero” labeled the film’s visuals “stunning” while “Smoke Screen” compared the film to Mullholland Drive. It has since played at numerous film festivals all over the world and this month was widely released on VOD and DVD. Also receiving recognition was the film’s score by composer Bill Brown, which is being released on iTunes October 28, 2016. Brown is best known for scoring such projects as CBS’s CSI: NY and Syfy’s Dominion. We spoke with Brown about his latest film score, discussing everything from how he got invloved to his working relationship with the director. Read the full interview below. -Tell us a...
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- 10/26/2016
- Screen Anarchy
We have seen shows come and go for a whole lot of reasons. Sometimes the general consensus deems it justified, sometimes not. Although it’s a mystery why Dominion was cancelled before the final showdown with Lucifer, it appears there are those out there who are not terribly happy about the situation.
Regardless of the reasons, the artists involved did a fantastic job with the show. I’m happy to present two very well-polished, exclusive videos featuring Bill Brown and virtuoso cellist Tina Guo in the studio as they brought some gorgeous music to the series. Perhaps if enough people complain, there could be a chance to reincarnate this series and bring back the end of the world.
Regardless of the reasons, the artists involved did a fantastic job with the show. I’m happy to present two very well-polished, exclusive videos featuring Bill Brown and virtuoso cellist Tina Guo in the studio as they brought some gorgeous music to the series. Perhaps if enough people complain, there could be a chance to reincarnate this series and bring back the end of the world.
- 12/24/2015
- by Nick Borrego
- GeekTyrant
Boasting a legendary cast comprising Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, John Carradine and more, Pete Walker's House of the Long Shadows will be released on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber in time for Halloween. Our latest round-up also includes the trailer and release details for Russell Friedenberg's Everglades-set horror film, Wind Walkers, and news on who will score the sophomore season of Syfy's Dominion.
House of the Long Shadows Blu-ray: According to Blu-ray.com, Kino Lorber will release House of the Long Shadows on Blu-ray this September.
Synopsis: "An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers that the manor, thought empty, actually has several, rather odd, inhabitants."
Directed by Pete Walker from a screenplay by Michael Armstrong (which, in turn, is based on the novel,...
House of the Long Shadows Blu-ray: According to Blu-ray.com, Kino Lorber will release House of the Long Shadows on Blu-ray this September.
Synopsis: "An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers that the manor, thought empty, actually has several, rather odd, inhabitants."
Directed by Pete Walker from a screenplay by Michael Armstrong (which, in turn, is based on the novel,...
- 3/31/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The Ann Arbor Film Festival celebrates its epic 53rd annual edition on March 24-29 with a colossal selection of experimental short films and features.
Feature film highlights include the documentary Speculation Nation by regular collaborators Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat, which examines the recent Spanish housing crisis; a new ethnographic doc by Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, which plunges deep into the culture of South Africa; and Jenni Olson’s grand California study The Royal Road.
Short film highlights include the much anticipated new film by Jennifer Reeder, Blood Below the Skin, a narrative following a week in the dramatic and romantic lives of three teenage girls; a new music video by Mike Olenick called Beautiful Things with music by The Wet Things; new animations by Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow, and Lewis Klahr, Mars Garden; plus new experimental work by Vanessa Renwick, Peggy Ahwesh and Zachary Epcar.
Special...
Feature film highlights include the documentary Speculation Nation by regular collaborators Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat, which examines the recent Spanish housing crisis; a new ethnographic doc by Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, which plunges deep into the culture of South Africa; and Jenni Olson’s grand California study The Royal Road.
Short film highlights include the much anticipated new film by Jennifer Reeder, Blood Below the Skin, a narrative following a week in the dramatic and romantic lives of three teenage girls; a new music video by Mike Olenick called Beautiful Things with music by The Wet Things; new animations by Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow, and Lewis Klahr, Mars Garden; plus new experimental work by Vanessa Renwick, Peggy Ahwesh and Zachary Epcar.
Special...
- 3/24/2015
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Marvel - Moonstone as Ms. Marvel Cosplayer: Elizabeth Wither Photographers: Adam Patrick Murray & Eurobeat Kasumi Photography ........................................................................ Marvel - Valkyrie Cosplayer: Elizabeth Wither * Photographer: Adam Patrick Murray ........................................................................ DC Comics - Red Son Supergirl Cosplayer: Elizabeth Wither * Photographers: Dakor Photography, Bill Brown & Ryan Leasure Photography Superman: Red Son - From acclaimed writer Mark Millar (Ultimate X-Men), and artists Dave Johnson (100 Bullets) and Kilian Plunkett, comes a revolutionary alternate reality for Superman! It's an American nightmare! What if baby Superman had crashed on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain and grew up to become Stalin's right-hand man? And what if insane genius Lex Luthor was employed by the Us government to develop their own countermeasure against the Man of Steel, turning the Cold War hot?! Alive with historical figures and starring a host of familiar superheroes, including Batman and Wonder Woman as you've...
- 9/7/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
The Ann Arbor Film Festival, having survived their half-a-century blowout in 2012, is back with another rip-roarin’ 51st edition in 2013, which will run from March 19-24, screening a mind-boggling amount of experimental short films and a few features.
Highlights of the fest include:
Special presentations by this year’s jurors, including Marcin Gizycki round-up of Polish animation from the 1950s to the present; Laida Lertxundi’s selection of some of her films as well as her biggest influences; and Kevin Jerome Everson’s mini-retrospective of his own films.
There’s also special tributes to Pat O’Neill, including a retrospective of his short films from the ’70s to the present as well as a screening of his 1989 35mm experimental epic Water and Power; Suzan Pitt, with selections of short films from her career; and a screening of Ken Burns’ latest doc The Central Park Five, co-directed with his daughter Sarah Burns and son-in-law David McMahon,...
Highlights of the fest include:
Special presentations by this year’s jurors, including Marcin Gizycki round-up of Polish animation from the 1950s to the present; Laida Lertxundi’s selection of some of her films as well as her biggest influences; and Kevin Jerome Everson’s mini-retrospective of his own films.
There’s also special tributes to Pat O’Neill, including a retrospective of his short films from the ’70s to the present as well as a screening of his 1989 35mm experimental epic Water and Power; Suzan Pitt, with selections of short films from her career; and a screening of Ken Burns’ latest doc The Central Park Five, co-directed with his daughter Sarah Burns and son-in-law David McMahon,...
- 3/19/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
New 90210 season 5,episode 16 official spoilers,plotline revealed by CW. Recently, CW released the new,official,synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "90210" episode 16 of season 5. The episode is entitled, "Life's A Beach," and it sounds pretty interesting as Liam tries to set up a new shop,hooks up with a new girl, and more. In the new,16th episode press release, Liam is going to decide to open his own custom surfboard shop for women, but things will get complicated when he becomes romantically involved with his first investor. Naomi will try to convince Mark (guest star Charlie Weber) to stay in Los Angeles after he receives an offer to be head chef at a restaurant in New York. Dixon will convince Silver to direct Michaela’s (guest star Lyndon Smith) first music video before she gets pregnant. Shenae Grimes, Michael Steger, Trevor Donovan ,and Jessica Lowndes also star in the episode.
- 2/16/2013
- by Eric
- OnTheFlix
Aug. 4
7:00 p.m.
Hollywood Theatre
4122 Ne Sandy Boulevard
Portland, Oregon 97212
Hosted by: Peripheral Produce
Peripheral Produce, one of the leading purveyors of experimental and avant-garde film and video, has boldly re-released their seminal Auto-cinematic Video Mix Tape and will be celebrating said release with a massive screening at Portland’s Hollywood Theatre on Aug. 4. The screening will include work from the DVD by local artists such as Matt McCormick, Miranda July, Vanessa Renwick and Jon Raymond, as well as modern videos by Orland Nutt, Ben Popp, Ashley Lee Collinson and way more.
The Auto-cinematic Video Mix Tape was originally released on VHS way back in 1998 and has been out of print for way too long. However, it has been completely re-mastered for DVD and is currently available on the Peripheral Produce website. Portland, Oregon has long been a hotbed of great experimental media makers and the Mix Tape gathered...
7:00 p.m.
Hollywood Theatre
4122 Ne Sandy Boulevard
Portland, Oregon 97212
Hosted by: Peripheral Produce
Peripheral Produce, one of the leading purveyors of experimental and avant-garde film and video, has boldly re-released their seminal Auto-cinematic Video Mix Tape and will be celebrating said release with a massive screening at Portland’s Hollywood Theatre on Aug. 4. The screening will include work from the DVD by local artists such as Matt McCormick, Miranda July, Vanessa Renwick and Jon Raymond, as well as modern videos by Orland Nutt, Ben Popp, Ashley Lee Collinson and way more.
The Auto-cinematic Video Mix Tape was originally released on VHS way back in 1998 and has been out of print for way too long. However, it has been completely re-mastered for DVD and is currently available on the Peripheral Produce website. Portland, Oregon has long been a hotbed of great experimental media makers and the Mix Tape gathered...
- 8/3/2012
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
Every once and a while, a new sample library comes along for us composers that changes everything, or is significant in its contribution to our arsenal of tools at our disposal. In this SCOREcast product review, we chose to take a look at the new Sample Logic Ni Kontakt-based library Fanfare in an attempt to discover if this was one of those libraries.
I have a pretty extensive background with the marching band / drum corps idiom, and my principal instrument is the trumpet, so imagine my excitement when Sample Logic announced the “Definitive Marching Brass Library” in Fanfare. There are not many libraries out there are for marching brass, and certainly none with the pedigree of the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps brass behind it—the only other one being… well… a bit antiquated at this point.
So…before I began exploring Fanfare, I went to Sample Logic’s...
I have a pretty extensive background with the marching band / drum corps idiom, and my principal instrument is the trumpet, so imagine my excitement when Sample Logic announced the “Definitive Marching Brass Library” in Fanfare. There are not many libraries out there are for marching brass, and certainly none with the pedigree of the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps brass behind it—the only other one being… well… a bit antiquated at this point.
So…before I began exploring Fanfare, I went to Sample Logic’s...
- 1/11/2012
- by Brian Ralston
- SCOREcastOnline.com
Your Weekly Source for the Newest Releases to Blu-Ray Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Boccaccio ’70 (1962)
Synopsis: Four legendary filmmakers direct some of Europe’s biggest stars in Boccaccio ’70, a landmark anthology film. Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), Federico Fellini (8½), Luchino Visconti (The Leopard) and Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) direct Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and more through four stories of unashamed eros. Modeled on Boccaccio’s Decameron, they are comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy. Monicelli’s “Renzo e Luciana” (cut out of the original American release) is a frothy tale of young love and office politics in the big city. Fellini’s notorious “Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio” features Ekberg as a busty model in a milk advertisement whose image begins to haunt an aging prude. Visconti’s “Il Lavoro” stars Romy Schneider as a trophy wife enduring her husband’s very public affairs,...
Boccaccio ’70 (1962)
Synopsis: Four legendary filmmakers direct some of Europe’s biggest stars in Boccaccio ’70, a landmark anthology film. Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), Federico Fellini (8½), Luchino Visconti (The Leopard) and Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) direct Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and more through four stories of unashamed eros. Modeled on Boccaccio’s Decameron, they are comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy. Monicelli’s “Renzo e Luciana” (cut out of the original American release) is a frothy tale of young love and office politics in the big city. Fellini’s notorious “Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio” features Ekberg as a busty model in a milk advertisement whose image begins to haunt an aging prude. Visconti’s “Il Lavoro” stars Romy Schneider as a trophy wife enduring her husband’s very public affairs,...
- 9/19/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
For the fourth year in a row, Isabel Fondevila of the Ata Film & Video Festival has sent me a complimentary screener of all the short experimental films playing at this year’s fest. Below are reviews for all the films being shown on the festival’s first night, which takes place on Oct. 21.
The individual films are all grouped under the heading “Human Nature,” which they all explore in their own unique ways. Each film could be characterized by how their characters communicate both to each other and to the audience. Viewers are typically pulled into the middle of intimate situations, even though that intimacy is sometimes being related through hearsay and anecdotal evidence.
Human interaction is sometimes a messy, complicated and sometimes downright ugly business and these films don’t spare us the grim details:
Union, dir. Paul Clipson. This is the fourth experimental film I’ve ever seen...
The individual films are all grouped under the heading “Human Nature,” which they all explore in their own unique ways. Each film could be characterized by how their characters communicate both to each other and to the audience. Viewers are typically pulled into the middle of intimate situations, even though that intimacy is sometimes being related through hearsay and anecdotal evidence.
Human interaction is sometimes a messy, complicated and sometimes downright ugly business and these films don’t spare us the grim details:
Union, dir. Paul Clipson. This is the fourth experimental film I’ve ever seen...
- 10/19/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 5th annual Ata Film & Video Festival in San Francisco is just a brief two-night affair, but is packed with more experimental and avant-garde filmmaking power than can be imagined. The fest explodes this year on Oct. 21-22.
Once again, the fest is a heady mix of local Bay Area favorites with filmmakers from all over the world. As for the locals, Paul Clipson will screen his newest, most epic work, Union; along with new animated weirdness from Kathleen Quillian; work by political mixologist Bryan Boyce; and an astounding Film/Video hybrid by Kerry Laitala made in Chromadepth. (In case you were worried, Chromadepth glasses will be provided.)
Other films come from nearby locations, such as Sam Barnett and Vera Brunner-Sung of Los Angeles; and Jeff Guay and Karl Lind of Portland. But others come from such far-flung places, such as The Netherland’s Maite Abella and Brooklyn’s Whitney Horn and Lev Kalman.
Once again, the fest is a heady mix of local Bay Area favorites with filmmakers from all over the world. As for the locals, Paul Clipson will screen his newest, most epic work, Union; along with new animated weirdness from Kathleen Quillian; work by political mixologist Bryan Boyce; and an astounding Film/Video hybrid by Kerry Laitala made in Chromadepth. (In case you were worried, Chromadepth glasses will be provided.)
Other films come from nearby locations, such as Sam Barnett and Vera Brunner-Sung of Los Angeles; and Jeff Guay and Karl Lind of Portland. But others come from such far-flung places, such as The Netherland’s Maite Abella and Brooklyn’s Whitney Horn and Lev Kalman.
- 10/15/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Can you believe that July is already upon us? What happened to the first half of 2010?
This month at SCOREcastOnline.com, we are focusing on “Marketing and Branding.”
I’m excited about finally bringing this topic to the forefront of our discussions at Sco, as many of you have been asking us to cover this topic for a long time.
As a possible timely stroke of genius(!), we are hosting our first-ever Official SCOREcast Mixer here in Los Angeles on July 18th. We will release details on how you can be involved before the weekend, so stay tuned for more on this special event.
To kick off the month, we’ve already read two Killer articles on the subject. Last week, Heather Fenoughty weighed in with an incredible article about Personality Branding, where she essentially lays out how to best promote yourself and run your business through understanding your personality type.
This month at SCOREcastOnline.com, we are focusing on “Marketing and Branding.”
I’m excited about finally bringing this topic to the forefront of our discussions at Sco, as many of you have been asking us to cover this topic for a long time.
As a possible timely stroke of genius(!), we are hosting our first-ever Official SCOREcast Mixer here in Los Angeles on July 18th. We will release details on how you can be involved before the weekend, so stay tuned for more on this special event.
To kick off the month, we’ve already read two Killer articles on the subject. Last week, Heather Fenoughty weighed in with an incredible article about Personality Branding, where she essentially lays out how to best promote yourself and run your business through understanding your personality type.
- 7/1/2010
- by Deane Ogden
- SCOREcastOnline.com
I don’t spend a lot of time online. I’m sure I should, and I bet there is some self-appointed social networking “expert” out there that would scold me for my lack of attention to online marketing. I don’t have a “dot com” and I don’t (think?) I have a “brand.” In fact, I barely have a business card. You should see it—it’s a simple white card in black Arial Bold that says, “Jai Meghan : Scoring Assistant”, with my phone number. Problem is, the phone number is not in service anymore, so underneath the crossed out phone number (in Sharpie, of course!) is my new Gmail address that was only set up a few months ago. By the time I finally remember to log in and check my Facebook messages—and honestly, I’m not even sure that’s what Facebook is really for...
- 6/21/2010
- by Jai Meghan
- SCOREcastOnline.com
The Chicago Underground Film Festival is always a special occasion, but the 17th edition of this venerable institution, which runs on June 24 – July 1, is a little bit extra special. This year, Cuff will be honoring the lifelong underground film champion Jonas Mekas with their Lifetime Achievement Award!
Mekas will be in attendance at the festival at will appear at several screenings in his honor. On the 25th, there will be a screening of the new documentary Visionaries: Jonas Mekas and the (Mostly) American Avant-Garde, at which director Chuck Workman, Mekas and underground film historian Fred Camper will participate in a Q&A. Then, on the 26th, several of Mekas’ own films will screen and he’ll be presented with his award.
As for the rest of the fest, Cuff usually has some sort of unifying theme, at least as far as the features go. It’s not typically a stated theme,...
Mekas will be in attendance at the festival at will appear at several screenings in his honor. On the 25th, there will be a screening of the new documentary Visionaries: Jonas Mekas and the (Mostly) American Avant-Garde, at which director Chuck Workman, Mekas and underground film historian Fred Camper will participate in a Q&A. Then, on the 26th, several of Mekas’ own films will screen and he’ll be presented with his award.
As for the rest of the fest, Cuff usually has some sort of unifying theme, at least as far as the features go. It’s not typically a stated theme,...
- 6/3/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival is set to run on March 23-28 and while the specific lineup hasn’t been announced yet, the fest has released information on two separate programs: The Special Programs and the Free Programs.
The Special Programs are a trio of curated events featuring the work of three different filmmakers:
In 2006, filmmaker Naomi Uman moved to the Ukraine — the country of her great-grandparents — and settled into the village of Legedzine. Unfamiliar with the language or the culture, Uman documented her gradual understanding of both in several 16mm short films collectively titled the “Ukranian Time Machine,” which will screen at Ann Arbor., Austria’s Viennale and the Sundance Film Festival.
Nicky Hamlyn, a British filmmaker will screen a selection of his work. His short, silent 16mm films are created one individual frame at a time and focus on rural and urban landscapes and domestic interiors. From Montreal,...
The Special Programs are a trio of curated events featuring the work of three different filmmakers:
In 2006, filmmaker Naomi Uman moved to the Ukraine — the country of her great-grandparents — and settled into the village of Legedzine. Unfamiliar with the language or the culture, Uman documented her gradual understanding of both in several 16mm short films collectively titled the “Ukranian Time Machine,” which will screen at Ann Arbor., Austria’s Viennale and the Sundance Film Festival.
Nicky Hamlyn, a British filmmaker will screen a selection of his work. His short, silent 16mm films are created one individual frame at a time and focus on rural and urban landscapes and domestic interiors. From Montreal,...
- 2/11/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
With the plethora of sountrack CDs released for your favorite theatrically released features, the music to direct-to-dvd films usually fell below the radar no matter how they good may be. Thanks to enterprising label MovieScoreMedia at least one more score like that is saved from obscurity. Bill Brown's The Devil's Tomb already made it to the top spot of some soundtrack lists, so perhaps it's time to check out what the buzz is all about with its composer. A veteran of video game commissions, Bill Brown wrote this score during his summer break from his current commitments to the hit show CSI: New York which keeps him busy for the rest of his year.
How were you approached to do The Devil's Tomb?
My manager is friends with Bill Sheinberg, one of the executive producers on The Devil's Tomb and he introduced me to Bill back in the spring...
How were you approached to do The Devil's Tomb?
My manager is friends with Bill Sheinberg, one of the executive producers on The Devil's Tomb and he introduced me to Bill back in the spring...
- 8/4/2009
- Daily Film Music Blog
To win a pass to all five days worth of Migrating Forms screenings, see instructions at the bottom of the post, after the jump. Around this time last year, I wrote a preview of the final installment of the New York Underground Film Festival, in which I quoted a memorial to the 15 year downtown institution published in the Village Voice by former festival organizer Ed Halter. Halter had painted a picture of an event that inspired protests and counterprotests, that hosted a raw meat fashion show, that was locally known as a peddler of “fucked-up shit” … and which eventually evolved into a showcase for the work of artsy-cool artists like Bill Brown, Miranda July and Deborah Stratman, who rarely had “fucked-up shit” on the agenda. Based on the portion of the program of the last Nyuff that I screened, I was disappointe ...
- 4/14/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
He joined Belo8 under legendary news director Marty Haag in 1981 and began shooting and reporting his own stories about 15 years ago "because it made it easier on staffing and I sort of liked the flexibility of it," Pronk said. ...Pronk said he still cherishes a compliment from former Belo8 reporter Bill Brown, who once told him, "John, I just don't see your stories anywhere before I see you do them.
- 5/16/2007
- by Ed Bark
- UncleBarky.com
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