Sally Potter

Hello Stranger

sally potter — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:38:19 +0200

Writing a blog is something like whispering into the wind. Or shouting into a storm. Now that blogs have proliferated into their millions and millions – a kind of white noise – it is something of a...

Money and Earth

sally potter — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:31:35 +0200

A few weeks ago at the G20 summit in the UK I went to Bishopsgate (a street on the fringes of the financial centre of the City of London) to see what was happening with the ‘Climate Camp’. This was...

Earth

jimmybarnett — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:41:40 +0200

I have had my hands in the earth for the last two weeks. It’s a good way of thinking, obliquely, about all kinds of subjects, by concentrating on something primal, demanding so much attention that...

Money?

jimmybarnett — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:41:31 +0200

There is an interesting new post on the forum from ‘EasyLife26’. The writer had seen the Reuters TV report from Berlin about RAGE and responded with “Naked Cinema?...I just don’t find it very...

Barefoot Filmmaking

jimmybarnett — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:35:17 +0100

Just before I started work on RAGE I wrote myself a private manifesto. I called it “Barefoot Filmmaking” and it was a way of reminding myself what I believed in and how to approach work on this new...

Pleasures in Lean Times

jimmybarnett — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:20:47 +0100

I suspect RAGE may be seen as a film for lean times. It’s certainly ‘no waste’ filmmaking: low-budget and definitely not an extravagant spectacle. But what it lacks in special effects, fancy...

Beauty

jimmybarnett — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:31:23 +0100

Part of the subject matter of RAGE is the ugly use of beauty in the pursuit of profit. Drugged by Marketing, sapped by fear of aging, conned by the cult of celebrity... image becomes all. Jude Law,...

Intimacy

jimmybarnett — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:26:57 +0100

There are many definitions of intimacy on film, but I have rarely found nudity or sex scenes to be one of them. What the camera can do better is somehow observe thought and experience - the nuance...

Sound

jimmybarnett — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:22:11 +0100

RAGE has been a consistent experience at every stage of the working process: none of the usual rules seemed to apply. In the cutting room the handheld material (no cut-aways, no reverse angles)...

Berlin

jimmybarnett — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:15:45 +0100

RAGE is nearly done. The picture is locked and I am about to go to Paris to finish mixing the sound with Vincent Tulli (who mixed YES) and then, in January, to make a 35mm print with Digimage. Of...