100 Soldiers Dead

It was my birthday. We were early for the movie so we grabbed a coffee. While sipping my drink I glanced at the day's newspaper. Three soldiers had been killed, "100 Soldiers Dead" read the headline.

In black and white newsprint, the photos could have been from another time. But these are not the soldier boys of yesteryear, they were the faces of men. Career soldiers fighting a war that had gone on longer than World War 2. A war with no impact on my life.

Three soldiers died on my birthday and it hadn't changed a thing.

Made in December 2008.

Training A Fool Is Not a Joke, apparently.

Commissioned as part of Re-Live Vancouver the film loop Training A Fool Is Not A Joke will be shown as a video installation in the street window of Satellite Gallery at 560 Seymour St. (aka the old A&B Sound building) from September 9th to October 22nd.

Re-Live Vancouver is an art show where emerging Vancouver artists were invited to make a piece inspired by the work of one of Vancouver's established artists. For Fool, filmmaker Brian Lye created a loop inspired by the Rodney Graham piece Vexation Island (1997).

SWARM 2011 Happening Now!

Belated post but the 2011 edition of Swarm is happening now! Check this link for more info on this weekend's events as part of this festival of Vancouver artist run spaces.

The 30 Harshest Filmmaker Insults

When legends insult legends you get the 30 harshest filmmaker insults in history.

Deadline coming up for Northwest Film Festival

The August 1st deadline for the Northwest Film Festival is fast approaching. Its free to enter! So no excuses!

Signal & Noise 2011

The 2011 edition of Signal & Noise starts tomorrow! Check out the website for more information on screenings & venues.

Smithsonian on 8mm

Inspired by the release of the J.J. Abrams spectacle Super 8, the Smithsonian published a pair of articles this month on the history of amateur film gauges and their use in documentary work.

Corner Video Stores Fade Out

The Vancouver Courier, published an article this week on the recent closures of video rental stores around the Vancouver area (and North America in general). Of course you've been probably been too busy downloading features to have notice this...

Terminal Cinema II Post-Motem

With seating for 24, we packed 40 unpaid customers into the micro-cinema at the Cineworks Annex for the highly anticpated event Terminal Cinema II. The after party went past midnight as attending filmmakers: cj brabant, Brian Lye and John Woods met with the audience and discussed their projects.

Many thanks to all who volunteered!

Kudos to Dirty Beaches

Props to Alex Zhang Hungtai of Dirty Beaches who have been profiled in this weeks Georgia Straight. Alex co-wrote the music for Dubbio.