I am in the midst of pre-production for a short film I am working on entitled Swimming Away, and we are excited to announce our new Kickstarter project!

SWIMMING AWAY
Three finalists fiercely compete in an intense swimming competition. The prize?
A citizenship to the most desired country in the world.
SWIMMING AWAY is about the personal and political borders that exist in reality and in our subconscious.
The film is a provocation to start a dialogue that deals with themes of immigration, foreign policy and what it means to belong.

Kickstarter is an “invite-only” initiative where you set a fundraising goal and provide incentives (gifts!)
for people to give you money to complete your project.

The catch? Well if we don’t meet our financial goal in the time frame set, we get NOTHING!

This is where you lovely people come in.

Our goal: $5,000
Time Frame: 30 days

The project starts TODAY, so please help by giving whatever you can financially, and by spreading the word
via email, Facebook, Twitter, blogs and good old word-of-mouth. All widgets and coding is on our page so it is
really easy to do, and you get awesome gifts at every level.

Including some text like “I donated $10 to Margarita’s new film project at
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/474055611/swimming-away-a-short-film” would be great,
or just click on the widget icon under the main image.

Visit us at Kickstarter.com to find out more about The short film SWIMMING AWAY here

Thank you, I look forward to swimming away with you in this collaborative effort!

Serge Gainsbourg's double smoking

Can we really sneak in the live of S.G? Be part of those precious music moments, I have always wondered how they snapped in real life…?

This might be the closest –hyper –reality. Embellished like a 3 floor fluffy pink and blueish cake  à la Marie Antoinette, puff  je m’en fou , let’s indulge in the melodies of S.G in the film Gainsbourg Vie Héroïque. If  you have a screener send it my way. I’m free to indulge in the cinematic splashy cake. After all what would France be today without S.G?

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Au cinéma le 20 janvier

http://www.gainsbourg-lefilm.com

La vie de Gainsbourg, du jeune Lucien Ginsburg dans le Paris occupé des années 1940, jusqu’au poète, compositeur et chanteur célébré dans le monde entier.
Le film explore son itinéraire artistique, du jeune homme épris de peinture à la consécration de sa musique dont l’avant-gardisme en a fait une véritable icône de la culture française. Mais aussi la complexité de sa vie adulte à travers ses amours tumultueuses.

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/trash-humpers/excerpts

Check it out:

http://ubu.com/film/lamorisse_vent.html

A well- known French filmmaker, Albert Lamorisse, under the aus- pices of Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Art, produced the poetic film “Lovers’ Wind” (1969). Eighty-five percent of this dramatically visual film is shot from a helicopter, providing a kaleidoscopic view of the vast expanses, natural beauty, historical monuments, cities and villages of Iran. The “narrators” of the film are the various winds (the warm, crimson, evil and lovers’ winds), which accord- ing to folklore, inhabit Iran. They sweep the viewers from place to place across the Iranian landscape, introducing the incredible variety of life and scenery in Iran. The camera, defying gravity, with smoothness and agility, provides a bird’s eye view, caressing minarets and domes, peek- ing over mountain tops beyond, gliding over remote villages to reveal the life enclosed within the high mud-brick walls, bouncing along with the local wildlife, following the rhyth- mic, sinuous flow of the oil pipelines and train tracks, and hovering over the mirror-like nmosaic of the rice paddies that reflect the clouds and sky. The film is a testimonial to the Iranian landscape and people over which so many dynasties and kings have ruled and have, in turn, passed away. Ironically, on the tenth anniversarv of the completion of the film, yet another seem- ingly powerful dynasty (Pahlavi) has fallen, leaving, as the film points out, the land and the migrating tribal nomads who have survived more or less intact for centuries. Upon completion of the film, the Ministry of Culture and Art decided that Lamorisse had not sufficiently emphasized the industrialization of Iran. So he was called back to film additional sequences documenting that progress. This task was never completed, because the helicopter crashed while filming the Karaj Dam near Tehran, plunging Lamorisse and his crew to their deaths. This film, whose storybrook style of narration is often contrived, does not purport to be a social document on Iran; nevertheless, it has never been shown publicly in theaters in Iran.” — Hamid Naficy

Enjoying the Rock n Roll Mash up Mix

Piers, Camille and Dominique covering Nick Drake’s “One Of These Things First”