Dance Numbers?
CC’s letter to Richard Jenkins necessitated that I watch The Visitor immediately. It’s a very nice, intimate character study with much more interesting cultural attitudes than, say, the Oscar-famed Crash, which was awful. The hardest part about watching it was that all of the nuanced pins that get set up are knocked down too easily and quickly, such as Walter’s inability to talk about his work in progress. I almost think the film was meant to be three hours long and the producers shortened the scenes for the modern content curve. It seems appropriate that Walter ends up listening to Fela somehow. Good sir, Sahil Sachdev introduced me to him my freshmen year at CC.
In other news, I just finished serving as camera operator and sometimes director of photography for Jeff and Saba Doucette’s web-series, “Bollywood to Hollywood,” intended to fuel the investments for their feature. Strangely enough this was my third Bollywood-related project. At CC I was a camera operator for Dave Kahn’s thesis about a film student who goes to India to make a Bollywood film and I also acted in Winslow Porter and Keith Anthony-Brown’s Dark Days of the Wonderful Sach, complete with bhangra hits. The idea for the series came from Jeff’s trip to India to star in David Lynch’s daughter’s film, Hisss.
If you have Netflix and missed out on Film 101, you can watch Even Dwarfs Started Small instantly and get a taste.