JJ Murphy

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 22:31:46 +0000

JJ Murphy Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/20/2015 - 15:31

J.J. Murphy has had his work screened at prestigious showcases, film festivals, and major art museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Anthology Film Archives, the Museum of the Moving Image, the National Gallery of Art, The Austrian Film Museum (Vienna), The Barbican Film Centre (London), and the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris).

He has published articles in such journals as Film Culture, Film Quarterly, Millennium Film Journal, and the Journal of Screenwriting. His creative process has allowed him to speculate in narrative filmmaking in new and interesting ways, which led to his well-received book on cinema practice Me and You and Memento and Fargo: How Independent Screenplays Work (Continuum, 2007) and The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol (University of California Press, 2012), the first comprehensive study of the films of the noted Pop artist.

Murphy is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Screenwriting and the advisory board of International Screenwriting Network. He is an editor of the new Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting series, and he teaches film production, screenwriting, and film studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Guy Maddin

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:27:41 +0000

Guy Maddin Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 01/20/2014 - 14:27

Guy Maddin’s body of work is as beautiful as it is confounding and delirious. He incorporates the language of past cinema, with which he is most intimately familiar from his countless hours of film viewing, and combines this with a pre-cinematic sensibility learned from the books he voraciously devours. A man of prodigious intellectual appetites, Maddin’s many interests and obsessions can easily be discerned in his work. Maddin’s work is critically engaged with the current status and future of independent filmmaking in our digital culture, as he has been one of those few filmmakers to successfully navigate between analog and digital media.

In 1995, Maddin was the recipient of the Telluride Medal for Life Time Achievement at the Telluride Film Festival. He is the youngest person ever to have been awarded this honor. Maddin is known for his short works such as The Heart of the World (2000) and My Dad is 100 Years Old (2005) as well as his feature films Cowards Bend the Knee (2003), The Saddest Music in the World (2003), Brand Upon the Brain (2006), and My Winnipeg (2007). At the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2009 he premiered a new short film, Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair starring Isabella Rossellini, which was projected on the side of an office building. Maddin has been a regular contributor to Film Comment and The Village Voice. He has curated at the UCLA Film and Television Archive and has taught at the University of Manitoba.

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