HINDSIGHT - SUMMER TRAILER HAS ARRIVED

This is a trailer for my B.F.A thesis film at Emerson College. Over the last 7 months, I've shot almost 6,000 feet of 16mm film of people and places in Marlborough, Connecticut - my hometown. For more information on the film, and on how to support the production, please visit the Hindsight website.

Inspired by the films of Godfrey Reggio, I decided to cut this trailer to showcase some of the locations that I covered. The music is "Foe" by Philip Glass, off of Glassworks. Enjoy!

TEASER 017 - FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES DOCUMENTARY

Teaser 017 from mike ambs ☂ on Vimeo. For more information on Mike's documentary, you can follow him on Twitter, @FToM

HINDSIGHT - TEASER OF EASTER FOOTAGE

Quick teaser trailer of footage that I shot over Easter weekend of this year in Marlborough, Connecticut. Music: Saltwater by Beach House. For more trailers and production videos, check out the Hindsight Vimeo channel.

We Have Some Printers in the Basement You Can Use

So, I've been a fan of John Campbell's Pictures for Sad Children for awhile, and was intrigued by an update on his blog:


The shirt was in reference to a really strange trailer to a really strange movie. Upon some research and crimefighting, I discovered a conspiracy involving the trailer/movie being a publicity stunt/joke tracing back to mastermind Spike Jonze and the release of his soon to be epic, 'Where the Wild Things Are.'

Then the movie turned out to be real.

It was released in only a handful of theaters last month garnering responses ranging from hilarious to disturbing. This should pique the interest of any fans of the 'The Room.'



An Interview with the director makes even less sense.

THE FIRST DAYS OF SPRING TRAILER

I'm about to leave for San Franciso to finish shooting a music video for Mr. George Watsky, but I wanted to quickly share a trailer that I'm obsessing over recently. I just found out about the UK band Noah and the Whale, and they are releasing their next album along with a film. The combination of the song plus the cinematography has got me all hot and bothered in the right ways. It's playing in a few British festivals, but you can purchase the album and the DVD on August 31st. Please check it out.

ONLY

Favoritest movies ever usually revolve around children. I mean, duh, 400 Blows, but also most of Magnolia, Let the Right One In, George Washington, Kids (to an extent), Where the Wild Things Are (even though that's not out yet), all the movies from the '90s, but if you catch my drift, you should probably give this a look-see. Probably most of you have seen this already, and/or don't care, but I thought it'd be nice to put up anyway. I seem to put up a lot of trailers apparently. Let me know if that is not okay, but feel free to add more to the list.

For higher quality, check the Apple site.

THIRST.

Park Chan-wook does a vampire movie.

FIRST TEASER FOR HINDSIGHT

Shot on 16mm, MiniDV, Hi8, and VHS, "Hindsight" is an non-verbal documentary about my life growing up in Marlborough, Connecticut. For more information on the film, please visit my website here, or follow the production on twitter.

Coresponding with the four seasons, the film will be told in four parts. This is the teaser for the winter section. The project will be completed in May of 2010 and will be my Bachelor of Fine Arts thesis. To see all the recent trailers, and behind the scenes clips, subscribe to the Vimeo channel.

WILD THINGS!!

QUIET CITY DANCE SEQUENCE

I finally got a chance to watch Quiet City, by Aaron Katz this evening. I was thinking of posting the trailer for everyone to watch, but I thought I'd rather share one of the best scenes. A mixture of strangers and friends dancing before a party.

I enjoyed Quiet City more than other films like it (i.e. mumblecore) because I felt more of a connection to the protagonists. In Joe Swanberg's Hannah Takes the Stairs, Hannah is lost emotionally. Jaimie in Quiet City is physically lost. She arrives and the friend she is supposed to stay with isn't picking up her phone (something we can all relate to these days). Charlie has been unemployed for two months and spends his time fiddling with music. So when these two lost people start hanging out, boy it warms my heart. Warms my heart on a cold New England night. Available on DVD and friggin Netflix.

THE PLEASURE OF BEING ROBBED

I just wanted to say a few things about a film I watched last night called "The Pleasure of Being Robbed" by Josh Safdie and all the Red Bucket gang. I'm not the best at writing movie reviews, as I tend to ramble about what I liked best, so I'm going to first suggest that if you're interested in seeing this film, read a professional one. Michael Tully wrote a great article about the film on Hammer To Nail.

So all I can really say about the film is that it's an adventure. The imagination of the character's becomes your own. Whatever they want to do, you want to do with them. I say this because the film really has no limits. Eléonore doesn't follow any rules of society and therefore the film doesn't follow many cinematic conventions. Nothing stops the characters from doing what they want, whether it be a all night drive in a stolen car from New York to Boston, or a magical tryst through the Central Park Zoo. I hope I'm making sense. Again, I'm just going to say that the film is an adventure and you wanna be right there with 'em. This is the best review I can give.

Oh, and it's wonderfully shot in gorgeous 16mm.

I've attached the IFC trailer. You can watch the film currently ONDEMAND, but I'm assuming it will be playing more American festivals in the spring. I briefly met Josh Safdie at the Independent Film Fest of Boson two years ago and since then I've been following Red Bucket on their website. So I suggest you do the same. www.redbucketfilms.com