CINEMA VERSES with Ari Gold
Acclaimed filmmaker Ari Gold (with EP Francis Ford Coppola) shares indie filmmaking tips, directing advice, and 'Live Cinema’ tales.
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Make Love to a Plant (opens the original)
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A few years ago, I met Annie Sprinkle, who posited an ecosexual revolution (she generously let me post her 25 Ways to Make Love to the Earth manifesto in my Fogtown zine). So now I decided to deal with my gloom about human mistreatment of our mother earth by taking Annie’s rules #2, 12, and 19 into a no-budget movie.The fastest way to learn a new tool is to force yourself. Here’s the exercise I made, which you can try too, to get out of sadness and waiting mode: Make a movie for no mo
Glen Hansard Left the Stage Door Open (opens the original)
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Owls of Apocalypse (opens the original)
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So I was lying on my couch in the East Village, breathing apocalypse smoke from a thousand miles away, feeling sorry for bees and birds and all of us. Above me was my tree-branch of owl families: a Haitian painting purchased for $10 by my dad in 1968 or so. I wanted to take a time machine to their tree. I wanted to cry. And I thought: what the hell are we doing? Is there anything more important than our air and water? Why do we let corrupt politicians, judges, a president subsidize our own destr
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