A departure from Cirque du Soleil’s previous theatrical features (2012’s Worlds Away and the 2000 3D IMAX short Journey of a Man), Dawn Porter’s Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net breaks the third wall with a more intimate portrait of the company as it emerges from a 400-plus-day-long Covid pause and aims to restart its elaborate show O in Las Vegas. While theater companies adapted to Covid by offering performances for patrons on Zoom, that was never an option for an organization that prides itself on large-scale spectacles with countless moving parts. The flaw of Worlds Away and Journey of a Man, despite their use of 3D, is that they fail to capture the scope and scale of Cirque du Soleil. Porter, instead, keeps her camera at eye level, gazing in wonder at how a world-class team of acrobats, dancers, artistic swimmers, choreographers, coaches, divers, production managers, and trainers...
- 11/14/2022
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Documentary filmmaker Dawn Porter first entered the Sundance arena in 2013 with Gideon’s Army, a paean to the work of public defenders. She returns to the festival in 2016 with Trapped, her film about abortion in America. Porter and co-cinematographer Chris Hilleke speak with Filmmaker below about the many hurdles – both aesthetic and ethical – of filming a documentary in an abortion clinic. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of your film? What were the factors and attributes that led to your being hired for this job? Porter: It was really crucial that everyone who shot on this film […]...
- 1/31/2016
- by Soheil Rezayazdi
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Documentary filmmaker Dawn Porter first entered the Sundance arena in 2013 with Gideon’s Army, a paean to the work of public defenders. She returns to the festival in 2016 with Trapped, her film about abortion in America. Porter and co-cinematographer Chris Hilleke speak with Filmmaker below about the many hurdles – both aesthetic and ethical – of filming a documentary in an abortion clinic. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of your film? What were the factors and attributes that led to your being hired for this job? Porter: It was really crucial that everyone who shot on this film […]...
- 1/31/2016
- by Soheil Rezayazdi
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Directors: Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingard Writers: Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett Starring: Josephine Decker, Lane Hughes, Megan Mercier, Frank V. Ross, Amy Seimetz, Kate Lyn Sheil, Joe Swanberg, Kris Swanberg, Chris Hilleke, Josephine Decker, Rosemary Plain, Adam Wingard, Ti West, Brendan Kelly Havelock Ellis, a British sexologist, defined autoeroticism as "the phenomena of spontaneous sexual emotion generated in the absence of an external stimulus proceeding, directly or indirectly, from another person." Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard's film Autoerotic focuses on four heterosexual couples as they contend with relationship-crippling sexual arousal issues; however, Autoerotic is not always about self-arousal. Structured in four mostly autonomous vignettes (all with unnamed thespians): the first and fourth chapters reveal perverse men who are grasping at straws to achieve sexual satisfaction, whether it be the desire for a significantly larger penis or a usable mold of an ex-girlfriend's vagina; the second and third...
- 7/27/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
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