During 25 years of accompanying and composing for silent film and other audio-visual media, Neil Brand has become one of the finest exponents of a century-old art. A MIAN interview.
Neil Brand: Composer and Musical Improviser for Silent Films
posted November 23, 2011
The Art of the Film Improviser
posted November 23, 2011
Whether composed on the fly or in his studio, Neil Brand’s music for silent films is always keyed by the footage
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Neil Brand has been accompanying and composing for silent films for more than 25 years. Appearing around the world, he has built a reputation as one of the finest exponents of a century-old art.
His list ...
Call for Submissions
posted November 16, 2011
Cine Tectonica: Film On The Faultline
Alan Wright of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, has made a call for articles for a book to be titled Cine Tectonica: Film on the Faultline (Intellect Press). Abstracts of 250 words, along with a short biography, are due to him – alan.wright@canterbury.ac.nz – by February 6, 2012.
In his ...
How to Make “The Hobbit”
posted November 6, 2011
A joy for fans and filmmaking aficionados alike is the video blog that director Peter Jackson is keeping about his filming of The Hobbit, whose first installment is due for release at the end of 2012.
He has mounted his “The Hobbit, Production Video” series on his blog and his Facebook page, and it makes for ...
Clip of the Day: Andy Rooney
posted November 5, 2011
Andy Rooney discusses television news, in 1994
Source: C-Span Video Library
Duration: 26’
Andy Rooney died on Friday, November 4 2011 in New York City, aged 92, a month after the last of his many regular appearances on the CBS News network’s “60 Minutes” program.
His weekly segment on the show, “A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney,” made him ...
Bill Morrison’s Found-Footage Portrait of The Great Floods
posted November 3, 2011
Bill Morrison’s films using decayed found footage are legendary in experimental film circles, and this fall and winter you may have an opportunity to see his latest, The Great Flood, accompanied live by the stellar guitarist Bill Frisell and his quartet. (Morrison and Frisell’s project was the subject of a feature article in these pages, ...
Archival Film of Today: Mode de Paris
posted November 2, 2011
Mode de Paris (Paris Fashion, 1926)
Source: Europa Film Treasures
Duration: 4′ 49″
The models weren’t as skinny, and fashion runway style has changed in other ways, too, judging by this stencil-colored film by an unknown director, made in The Netherlands in 1926 by the Unie Filmrevue film company.
Still, by the standards of the day, and in the ...