In creating a list of the film directors who have most inspired and influenced me, I realized a theme running through all of their works: These are directors who use dream imagery in their films; they flawlessly combine reality with non-reality; and make the inner world of a human being just as real as the outer world. They are all visual masters, giving us images and characters we have rarely, if ever, seen before. I thought about why that was so important to me, and realized that I experience even ‘ordinary’ life as exquisitely strange and unbelievable, and these directors are able to translate the unreality of real life in the most beautiful and artistic way possible. And I love that.

There is a term used in cinema called the ‘auteur theory,’ which states that although filmmaking is a collaborative art, the director is the primary ‘author’ or voice of a movie. Their personal life . . . → Read More: THE TOP SEVEN FILM DIRECTORS WHO MOST INSPIRED AND INFLUENCED ME AND MY FILMS

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Seattle singer Barbara Ireland worked for many years in film — she earned a BFA from New York University Film School, directed award-winning shorts and music videos, co-owned a film production company in Seattle called Filmus Maximus, and was Floor Director for KING-TV (NBC) newscasts and Production Associate at KING’s “Evening Magazine” show.

On June 1st Barbara is releasing a DVD of her short, experimental films and music videos in a collection titled, From Dreams To Delirium… and Seattle’s fantastic Northwest Film Forum is hosting the DVD release party! There will be drinks, snacks, fascinating people, wild films… and a ‘Secrets Booth’!

(Share a secret in the ‘Secrets Booth,’ and you get $1 off your cocktail or popcorn!)

WED, JUNE 1ST, 7:30 PM. The NW Film Forum 1515 12th Avenue Seattle, WA 98122 (located on 12th Ave. between Pike and Pine on Capitol Hill)

Click here . . . → Read More: Barbara Ireland Releases a DVD of her Avant-Garde Films!

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On June 1st Barbara is releasing a DVD of her short, experimental films and music videos in a collection titled, From Dreams To Delirium.

The Northwest Film Forum is hosting the dvd release party on Wed, June 1, 2011. For tickets and info: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/174828.

“Barbara Ireland is to short films what Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski are to the cinema…except without the Ritalin!” Robert Williams, Juxtapoz Art Magazine

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Lionel Rogosin

When I read that the Northwest Film Forum would be screening three films by Lionel Rogosin from April 29th to May 12th, memories immediately flooded back to me of the year I worked with Lionel in New York City.

I was in my early-20s and was attending NYU, working towards my degree in Film Directing. Lionel hired me to help him with scriptwriting and some organizational work.

His ‘office’ was in his home. And his home was a room in the infamous Chelsea Hotel – yes, . . . → Read More: THE YEAR I WORKED WITH MAVERICK DOCUMENTARY FILM DIRECTOR, LIONEL ROGOSIN

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Your body is so important! Without good health, we can’t experience all the things we want to experience in this life. Barbara Ireland shares her opinion about choices regarding health, and how we’re all different… so let your body talk to YOU and tell you what it wants and needs!

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Do you have SOAP, SHAMPOO and OTHER SAMPLES

from your travels that are just sitting in your drawer?

Bring them to Seattle’s ST MARK’S CATHEDRAL for their homeless

‘Tent City’ residents ***BY NOVEMBER 26TH ***

…and YOU will be entered into a drawing to WIN

Barbara Ireland’s new CD of jazz standards,

‘Turning Back Time – Classic Songs To Kiss By’!

THREE WINNERS will be drawn on December 5th –

and EVERYONE who donates will have their names displayed

(with deep gratitude)… RIGHT HERE!

Please leave items at the ‘Tent City . . . → Read More: SAMPLES for Seattle’s ‘Tent City’ HOMELESS!

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Barbara Ireland goes location scouting in Seattle for her upcoming music video for ‘Black Coffee.’ She and director Kurt Feldhun visit Caffe Vita’s coffee roastery which sports a gorgeous (in an industrial way) pre-WWII roaster!

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