The Sami People call it the ‘blue time’ – the period in winter when the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon in northern areas of Scandinavia. Jeff Allen visits northern Norway every year, in both winter and summer, to break out of the world of credit cards and double glazing that society has become and explore the breath-taking wilderness and coastline by sea kayak with longtime friend Bjørn Eines. In more recent years, he has taken up dog sledding under the experienced wing of Tore Albrigtsen and now guides expeditions to the region to let others witness the beauty of his favourite place on earth.
Directed, filmed and edited by Greg Dennis
Supported by Sideways
Original Score by Chris Davey
Voice of Jeff Allen
With Thanks to Bjørn Eines and Tore Albrigtsen
Directed by Allie Avital
Starring: Martha Nichols
Director of Photography: Martim Vian
Executive Producer: Asher Brown / Laura Jones
Producer: Tasia Judd
Assistant Camera: Sonja Tsypin
Second Assistant Camera: Chantal Le Hunte
Gaffer: Joseph Ramsay
Makeup: Lexx Staats
VFX: Milton Ladd
Additional VFX: b.art.vfx
Special FX makeup: Sierra Russell
Editor: Jojo King
Color Correction: Jaime OBradovich / Company 3
Special Thanks to Nicole O’Connell
Filmed at Pollution Studios, Los Angeles
Less than two weeks after Philando Castile was killed by Police and video of the event was seen by the world via Facebook Live, we spend time with his closest friends as they mourn and remember Philando on what would have been his 33rd Birthday.
Featured on The Guardian
Part of the Happy Birthday Project: http://ift.tt/2bwunNI
Directed by: Mohammad Gorjestani
Produced by: Malcolm Pullinger
Executive Producers: Ephraim Walker & Andrew Coles
Edited by: Ashley Rodholm & Malcolm Pullinger
Director of Photography: Isiah Donté Lee
Associate Producer: Jamie Walker
Production Sound: Owen Brafford
Re-Recording Mixer & Sound Design: Joel Raabe
Colorist: Ayumi Ashley
Production Assistants: Rachael Gorjestani
With Support From: The Mission Entertainment, The Campaign For Black Male Achievement, Blackout For Human Rights
Album disponible partout.
iTunes: http://geni.us/2qzi
Bandcamp: http://geni.us/2AML
Maison de production : DAVAI
Réalisateurs : DAVAI
Visuals for the exibition Not There @ Fu Art gallery in Miami
Music: YDVST / soundcloud.com/YDVST
Directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada
Produced by Kimberly Stuckwisch and Corinna Martinez
Director of Photography: Albert Salas
Editor: Taylor Brusky
VFX: Jordan Allen
Production Designer: Fernanda Guerrero
Additional VFX: Tim Hendrix, Andres Jaramillo, Derek King, Ryan Ross and Tanner Merrill
Additional Photography: Alonso Mejia
Makeup/hair: Sandra Miguelli
Wardrobe: Fernanda Vélez
Sound: Michael O’Connor
Production Companies: Diktator (US) and Contenido Neto (MX)
Watch the full film here: http://ift.tt/2bk7bQC
I Am Sun Mu: The life and work of North Korean defector turned political pop artist
Sun Mu, a senior North Korean propaganda artist, escapes to the South and now uses his talent to make fun of the Supreme Leader through satirical political pop art. Offered a high profile solo exhibition in China, he could never have expected the hostility he would attract from the authorities. As he puts his exhibition together the forces against him grow. A tense narrative coupled with powerful imagery defines this unusual documentary.
“It all happened very suddenly.“ A crowd of bystanders gather in the closed-off streets that surround an art gallery encircled by police cars, anxious to understand what the commotion is. Behind the gallery walls lies the first ever solo exhibition of propaganda-artist-turned-defector Sun Mu, who has fled from North Korea to Beijing in search of refuge.
As a young child growing up in North Korea, Sun Mu always had a burning desire to represent the unrepresentable. Artistically influenced not by other painters but instead by dictators, Sun Mu recalls locking himself in his room to paint a picture of Kim Il Sung. “Before it was even dry, I burned it.”
Years later, Sun Mu’s satirical political pop art has admirers, and when he is offered his first solo exhibition in Beijing he knows that he is dancing with the devil. His provocative work is sure to stir conflict with the authorities who are nervous of upsetting their sensitive North Korean neighbours.
As he looks over a painting of Kim Jong Il stood proudly in front of an upside down flag – a bold and blatant reference to a backwards nation – he remembers how his hands trembled as he painted: “I always had a fear that someone might sneak up behind me and stab me.” Sun Mu’s anxious wife, on the other hand, is kept awake at night by the fear of the family being taken hostage.
As the opening day of Sun Mu’s exhibition finally arrives, police and government officials turn up at the gallery in search of the man behind the paintings, ready to interrogate…
The film is a powerful portrayal of a man who searches for freedom while concealing his own identity in the face of an oppressive political regime.
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