Music and Faces

Things are moving along nicely.

Robert Marchand has created a wonderful demo for our cabaret performance sequences, delighting Jacob and Jesko, and reassuring me after two weeks away. Robert and I have been working closely together on a lot of live performance and longer-form projects with Circo de Bakuza and Sid Lee over the last couple of years. I really think he's found his strength. (If anyone knows how you can post music to blogspot, please let me know!) We met in 1994 working on advertising, which can be great because it encourages discipline and creativity on demand, but awfully constraining and even soul-destroying for some.

We've also found our cast - an eclectic mixture of new and old friends, performers and non-performers. Here are two - Matthew, known as Andrew, and his friend the dancer Tomomi, from Japan. He's a DJ (Komodo) and plays wind instruments - he performed with us in Dubai. They met while working together on the avant-guarde performance scene in Montreal. Hopefully, we can collaborate in some way when we try to do something live with In The Cooler and perhaps some of my older poetry-based projects.

You can see her stuff here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nhXgoGBUtg

Matthew was the man in the blue robe you can watch here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdHLnsV_pJg&feature=related

It's funny how these short film projects have evolved over the years. They're always very personal, and we seem to corral friends and co-workers pretty easily. We're fortunate that so many seem to have the time and inclination to take part in some way.You can't help but connect with the people you put in front of your camera. So the films that come out end up feeling like well-loved scrapbooks to me.

(Matthew and Totomi's pictures snapped with the same MacBook I wrote this on.)