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"CARTS OF DARKNESS" screenings, reviews, trailer, and pics...
Screenings TORONTO: "Carts of Darkness" will be playing again in Toronto this summer at the NFB's Mediatheque. July 17th through 22nd, 2008.
"Carts of Darkness" was officially accepted into Toronto's HotDoc's Festival. The two screenings both were a gigantic success! Thank you NFB, CBC, Toronto and the Hotdoc's crew! Trailer: WATCH THE TRAILER HERE - PLEASE CLICK THE "PLAY" TRIANGLE ON THE CONTROL BAR BELOW
In Carts of Darkness the treacherous mountain roads and discarded shopping carts of North Vancouver become the rivers and boats of self-exploration for a group of homeless ‘free birds’ who have few chances at joy. Carts of Darkness is a cinematic Trojan horse, utilizing a filmic vocabulary, visual flair and humour often missing from “message” films, as a way to bring viewers, especially young ones, to the issues. The film adopts the tropes of extreme sports filmmaking; fluid flowing cinematography, intense music, visceral pulse pounding action and irreverent characters unbounded by society’s constrictions, to bring viewers deep into a world and deep into people they would normally look away from. They'll come for the carts and the crashes, the booze and the bruises, but they'll stay for the story of a unique brotherhood and a quiet redemption. - Jonathan Orr It is a story of the endurance and resourcefulness of a group of homeless men and a filmmaker trying to keep up, while overcoming perceptions around disability. Shot in stunning high-definition, and featuring tracks from Black Mountain, Ladyhawk, Vetiver, Bison, and Alan Boyd, of Little Sparta, Carts Of Darkness captures the risk and intensity of life lived on the very edge. Some Links to recent reviews and interviews:"One of 10 Most Promising Picks at Hot Docs"
CBC Sunday News (video interview with Murray Siple) "Never mind snowboarding..." "An insightful exploration of the human condition." "It's simply incredible…it makes the previous big screen shot of extreme grocery cart action - as seen in Jackass - look positively amateur."
"Siple's filmic resurrection is a refreshing parody of the self-important extreme sports genre, and at the same time it stands up as an important piece of social commentary." "The subconscious message under the surface is enough to make you cheer." "Cart driving is, in a word, intoxicating." "This isn’t one of those homeless-guys-are-just-like-us exercises in upper-middle class guilt trips. As it turns out, these guys are nothing like us."
With Jamie Mahaffey finishing the sound design and final mix at The Mix Room.
Thank you to Scott Pommier for some amazing stills for Carts of Darkness. SBC skateboard ran 2 pages of them in the Fall 2007 issue. There is also a small write-up in Transworld snowboarding recently.
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Murray Siple and 149 other artists featured in: The Cheaper Show: No. 8 is upon us. It is set to take place on June 21st of this year. This show will be twice the size of any event we have done previously and will be the largest art event in Vancouver this year. 150 Artists Cheaper than a One Night Stand was started in 2000 by local artists Steve “Breadman” Cole, Syx Langeman and Graeme (known then as the collective Fracture Industries) as a new format to promote talented and underexposed artists. The concept was very simple; to have a one night art show with dozens of multi disciplined artists and with over a hundred pieces of art, all for sale at one affordable price. The format caught on immediately and eight years later has grown to become an institution with it being the largest recurring one night art show in the history of this city.
In Toronto during the Hotdocs festival I was hugely inspired by the film "20 Seconds of Joy" by Jens Hoffman of F24Film about base jumper Karina Hollekim. Amazing cinematography with a view into Karina's life that will draw you closer to an understanding of why some of us deeply desire extremes. "Is the end when I hit the ground"? - Karina. (view trailer)
Go to the new NFB website to see excerpts from the film "Carts Of Darkness" and interviews with the director.
Living CBC's "Living Vancouver" recently broadcast a 5-minute video interview about Carts of Darkness and the director (Murray Siple a.k.a. "Independent Disabled Filmmaker"). Interview by Miss Malania De La Cruz.
"New for fall" photos on my
Alan Boyd of the London, U.K. based Little Sparta (Alan's solo project music is featured on Carts of Darkness).
I am now a member of Whistler Creek Productions. If you are looking for any Directors, D.O.P.'s, Cinematographers, photographers or locations in the Sea to sky area please contact us!
I have just edited my first "news" video for the Globe & Mail website. Conjoined at the head! | |
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