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Voices Project: almost…

damien power — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:12:45 +0000

It’s been a crazy busy couple of weeks with grading, ADR sessions,composing sessions etc. We finished mixing both Bat Eyes and Boot last night*. All we need to do now is marry the sound and the vision and the films are done. Not popping the champagne corks just yet but soon… very soon.

Detailed (and much deserved) thanks coming soon – just need to catch up on a little sleep.

*Speaking of sound, there’s a great interview on the NYT with Lon Bender, the Oscar-nominated supervising sound editor for Drive. You can find it here.

Peekaboo: West End Film Festival

damien power — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:45:01 +0000

If you’re in Brisbane, come on down to the West End’s Rumpus Cinema on 25th March to see Peekaboo in the West End Film Festival! See the full line up here.

Peekaboo: WOW Festival

damien power — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:26:56 +0000

Peekaboo has been selected to screen at the opening of the 18th World of Women’s Cinema Festival (WOW) in Sydney on Tuesday 6 March. It’s on from 12.30pm to 1.30pm at Customs House in Circular Quay. You can find details of the full program here. WOW indeed!

today’s inspiration: M.I.A.

damien power — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:17:23 +0000

Cause when she’s good, she’s very, very good.

today’s inspiration: Ben Gazzara 1930-2012

damien power — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:16:53 +0000

Loved your work.

Voices Project: teasers

damien power — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:11:13 +0000

It’s a sunny Sunday morning in Sydney and Nikki and I are back in the edit suite cutting teasers for Bat Eyes and Boot. What’s the differences between a teaser and a trailer? About two minutes.

Voices Project: Bat Eyes locked

damien power — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:56:45 +0000

Live blogging from the edit suite: the picture cut is locked! Thank you Nikki. Great job.

today’s inspiration: Kill List poster

damien power — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:54:15 +0000

Jay Shaw’s new poster for Ben Wheatley’s film Kill List is deservedly MUBI’s poster of the week. Kill List was one of my favourite films at last year’s Melbourne International Film Festival, and Shaw’s poster perfectly sums up the film’s agaonising feeling of inevitability with its list/domino motif.

today’s inspiration: Albert Brooks’ Downfall

damien power — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:09:41 +0000

At the risk of this becoming the Downfall meme blog I had to post this. Drive was my favourite film last year and the omission of Albert Brooks is a huge snub. Maybe Jackie Weaver used up the Academy’s sweetie-gone-bad goodwill for her turn in Animal Kingdom.

And here’s the highbrow corrective from the New Yorker’s Richard Brody. As Brody says, ‘rarely has the velvet glove been worn more suavely, on-screen, by the iron fist’.

While we’re talking Oscars snubs, check out NPR’s Joe Reid on this year’s nominees for Best Original Song and why you won’t see the name Cliff Martinez (also Drive) on that list.

Voices Project: Bat Eyes

damien power — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:44:53 +0000

I spent today in the edit suite with Nikki Stevens cutting Bat Eyes. A solid day’s work with a late dash of inspiration. Very satisfying. We’re close to a fine cut now.