a gun and girl - KASIA KASANOVA - car park kids

Here's the first short film from Car Park Kids, a union of myself at this blog and Sam Hiscox Photography. A group of guys who like the same kinda things and want to make the movies that they want to see.

KASIA KASANOVA is based around Jean-Luc Godard's famous quote "all you need for a movie is a gun and girl". With that in mind, we hit out local multistory car park at around 1am one night the other week and let the story unfold. With the help of a few friends and a great tune by The Black Keys we came up with this....

KASIA KASANOVA had its world premier at The Duke's After Dark at The Duke of York's Picturehouse in Brighton on Saturday 12th November before a SOLD OUT late night screening of PULP FICTION.

Expect to see more stuff from Car Park Kids real soon.....

Harmony Korine, Val Kilmer and the Fourth Dimension

Three directors, Harmony Korine (USA) Alexei Fedorchenko (Russia) and Jan Kwiecinski (Poland) have teamed up on a new film project which explores the concept on the Fourth Dimension.

The project has been set up by Vice and Grolsch Film Works. It is planned as a 3 short half hour films exploring the same concept that will be showcased together as one feature film. Korine's part features Val Kilmer playing himself as a motivational speaker...Sounds pretty fucking great to me....

"The mandate of the project is to create cinematic experiences with filmmakers that have truly unique approaches to character and story-telling. Inspired by filmmaker (and friend) Harmony Korine, I created a weird (but wonderful) brief that tasks each director to create riveting characters that inhabit supra-normal worlds," says Eddy.

The Fourth Dimension will be out some time next year, find out more about it here...

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/grolsch-film-works-eddy-moretti-val-kilmer-harmony-korine

http://www.grolschfilmworks.com/

WOMEN ON THE ROAD

My favourite episode so far of this ode to the road of rock & roll. Jessie "Boots Electric' Hughes chats to some of the women who make rock & roll possible...not the groupies and the drug chic wannabes, but some real ladies that make the real good shit of rock&roll possible!

Like most things...woman make it better, including ROCK!

See more of this great series from Marshal Headphones and Vice, HERE

DAISEY LOWE selling phones!

This is an extremely over elaborate way to sell a camera phone, but Daisy Lowe makes it OK!

More of this here: www.vice.com/xperiaunseen

ON THE ROAD - VICE

Vice and Marshall Headphones have made a documentary about roadies featuring the guy from Eagles of Death Metal!

There will be nothing to dislike about this...

ON THE ROAD

Check out more here: www.vice.com/ontheroad

and WIN tickets to a screening and a boozy talk with Jesse 'Boots Electric' Hughes here: www.vice.com/en_uk/read/roadies-marshall-on-the-road-jesse-hughes

DRAGONSLAYER - protect yourself, your friends and your family

I really like the look of this....

"An ugly, brutal, punk rock documentary. I'm not sure why but it needs to exist."

Winner best doc at SXSW this year...so that's a good sign. No idea as to a UK release yet...but will look out for it...you should too!

WORLD FILM LOCATIONS: LONDON

A while back I was asked to contribute to a book published by Intellect about movies set in London. I did.

Finally the book is ready and will be on sale from Monday 12th Sept 2011.

WORLD FILM LOCATIONS: LONDON focuses on specific scenes from around films set in London and focus on the location and how they represent London through the unique perspective of that film. There are also longer essays on various aspects of London on film. The book is fully illustrated with images from the films and maps of locations.

I personally focused on scenes from:

Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock, 1929)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchock, 1956)

Bullet Boy (Saul Dibb, 2004)

The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass, 2007)

There will be loads of great stuff in this book, if you're interested in movies, cities, travel then check it out.

On sale from 12th Sept 2011 at Waterstones, WHSmiths, Amazon, Intellect Books and MoMA (Museum of Modern Art in New York City yo!) There is a whole series of these books being released about cities all over the world, they're going to make for a great collection.

Here's a link: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book

(apologies for that awful man on the front cover...out of my hands!) Give me Bob Hoskins or Ray Winstone any day!

UNTITLED BEACH VIDEO - (SKATERDATER)

Me and and some friends shot this to screen before the screening of JAWS at The Duke's After Dark last month. It would have been better if I'd have know what I wanted before I shot and edited it, but its kinda funny anyway!

Tune by The Surf Trio!

Hang Ten!!!

YOU KNOW I'M NO GOOD

Since this blog was put on hiatus, a sad day occurred in the world of music. Amy Winehouse tragically passed. Her music was pretty fucking great and it will be with us for a long time.

Earlier this year the queen of rock'n'roll Wanda Jackson release her album 'The Party Ain't Over' produced by Jack White (he plays guitar here too). It consisted of covers of old and contemporary tunes.

This take on Winehouse's 'You Know I'm No Good' is rousing reminder of the timelessness of good music and good songs. Old or new, young or old, it doesn't matter....it;s just great music!