Reel Girly

My first piece for Film Arts Foundation’s Release Print is an interview with SF Filmmaker Lynn Hershman-Leeson about her most recent film Strange Culture. The film is incredible and currently doing the festival circuit. It premiered at Sundance and will probably play SFIFF this year. It shouldn’t be missed!

See the interview on my portfolio here (PDF 7 MB). The article was a great experience to write! Laurie Koh at Film Arts did so much with me to flesh this out. I wanna work with her forever!

The first piece I ever wrote for publication was a compare and contrast essay on Vertigo and The Game. For an indie film journal titled “Intersection: A Book of Matches,” the piece matched the journal’s focus on quirky film comparisons and penchant for word play. The gallant Jonathan Marlow (of Greencine) spearheaded the publication with the lovely writer filmmaker Hannah Eaves and brought it to the indepedent magazine convention and all that.

The piece, called “Suicide, Blondes and San Francisco: The Game of Vertigo and the Vertigo of The Game played on the idea that Vertigo arouses and answers questions similarly asked and answered by The Game.

The writing style feels awkward to me - it is many years old after all. Mark has just put it in my portfolio. It makes me nostalgic. I’m sure Vertigo has that effect on everyone.

SF has an embarrassment of cinematic riches.

On a weekly basis I write this plural voiced weekly movie listings for SFist called “Let’s all go to the Movies”. It’s voluntary but the SFist circulation is high, I like writing the piece and I feel it keeps me apprised of the ever changing tide so why not do it? I can also occasionally put in my 2p about how some film should be in local theatres (so ask your theatre owner for it like Meryl Streep told us to!) or how everyone should be going to Other Cinema.

I intend to support this SFist weekly publication with a link from my blog…but next time I’ll do it closer to the actual post.