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I directed a music video for the band Unfamiliar Occurrence a few weeks ago. The video’s cut is locked, we are just waiting for color correction and it’s ready for release. I will keep people updated on its priemere and i will probably have a version here to watch. It will also come on thier new album as an enhanced CD.
It features actress Kindy Barr and Unfamiliar Occurrence’s Sam Oak on a quest of sorts. Its straight up Rock and Roll.
Also, my feature film “whale” is on the road to completion. I am under the impression that the final piece will be ready by June 2007.
And on a different note, i am also releasing a Shanks and the Dreamers album titled “A Day Late: Instrumentals for Illegal Aliens” in March 2007.
Of course i always pretend to update these damn blogs, but maybe this year, i will keep my word? Anyways, i might have no other choice.
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I will be shooting a new film tentatively titled “Knock Knock” in mid feb. This does delay the editing process for “whale” since i am cutting it myself becuause of many reasons. But i will adhere to its completion date in June. The new film is a 14 page script written by Chris Manz, and shot on S16. Its comical and kind of a new thing for me, but i am excited about it.
Aside from the immediate, the music video i shot of Something Blue by Unfamiliar Occurrence will be color corrected and ready to go by Sunday. The release will be posted but its within this month.
Oh shit, this blog is so damn impersonal. God, what has happened, what has created this formal monster?
Also, sorry about my website. It is two years old, and the only thing i added was this damn mundane blog. That pretentious “who is Amir Motlagh” needs to suffer a respectful demise. My friends who design websites are lazy, and outsourcing is the way to go with these things. So, do you know how to design? Hook a brother up.
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So here is the original trailer for Still Lover. It was made for its preimere at the DancesWithFilms festival in 2003. It ended up winning the “Audience Fusion Award” at the festival that year in the shorts category.
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This is the new music video i directed for the band UnFamiliar Occurrence. The song is “Something Blue” of thier MurMur EP release. It features lead singer Sam Oak on a quest of sorts and actress Kindy Barr struting here stuff reminiscient of a White Snake, Motley Crue video of yesteryear…..
Check it out.
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So, i guess it would be good to list things of importance work wise that occurred in 2006 for personal perspective. So here goes in a structrualist listing of importance, of which all things lead to the same objective nevertheless. Things also might be bleeding into this new year as well, so i will mark with an astricks like this *. Or like this ** of that means anything different in the footnotes of your head.
1. whale (shot the feature film) * In Post Production, will be finished June 2007
2. Shanks and the Dreamers (album finished and mastered) *Will be released in March/April 2007
3. “Astonishing Experience Box Set” installation ran for three months(oct-dec) at The Seed Design Gallery in Santa Ana.
4. Finished a short film titled “Tracing the Edges” in July.
5. “My break Ups into a Million Pieces” continued the festival tour.
6. “Still Lover” continued to play in several theaters
7. Directed a music video for the band UnFamiliar Occurrence
oh man, i will continue this later, i believe i’m missing stuff.
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Yah, i got a band, so what. The album we are releasing is called “A Day Late: Instrumentals for Illegal Aliens” and features 6 tracks. This album was recorded from the summer 05 to summer 06 and was mixed down and mastered and complete on Dec 20th 2006. It will be released soon after my new film “Knock Knock” is done, which if i were to speculate, March 2007.
The artwork design and layout for the CD was co authored by graphic artist Martin Nilchian who also played Marteen in my very first film Dino Adino.
The material on this release is a bit different, well alot different then where Shanks and the Dreamers is now adays. These recordings are more intimate and the album is more conceptual then the newer stuff. “A Day Late” was really a solo instrumental album with help from friends who eventually became Shanks and the Dreamers. But, because it is the birth of an idea, it will retain the same name.
There will be a limited pressing and will be available online, some stores, and here i guess. But i will let you know where you can grab a copy.
For now, here is the fantastic link to the place you spend all day, myspace….
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So, i will be filming “Knock Knock” come tomorrow. What’s it about you might ask, well its about “Chris, a young struggling comedian who finally has found some fame on an internet comedy site. But during a somewhat disasterious taping session with an actress who thinks she’s being exploited, Chris’s ex girlfriend Karla shows up to tell him some good news of her own. With a load of resentment and hard feelings, will this passive aggressive comedian find a way to move forward?
Goddamnit! Someone get me a good logline writer….Anyways will keep you posted.
In other news, sometimes i rhyme slow sometimes i rhyme quick.
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So, filming is happening and i am now 6/8 done with the film….Lene Pederson who plays Sharon was a pleasure to work with. I have known her for a few years now, as we were training as actors at the Stella Adler years previous, then we lost touch, then a photography friend referred her to me for another role i was casting for last year, and too my surprise, it was the same Lene that i had lost touch with.
Chris Manz who is playing “Chris” is doing his thing. I will talk about it more as time passes.
And Keaton Shyler who is playing Carla or Karla, well she is a pleasure to work with.
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Ok, so “Shanks and the Dreamers” album “A Day Late: Instrumentals for Illegal Aliens” will be released on April 17th.
A new film, tentatively titled “In Spite of the Laughs” will be ready to tour the festival circuit on May 15th. The rough cut is done. It was shot on S16 and the master is on D5. The run time is about 20min.
The feature film “whale” i concieved of will be ready in July.
I am planning on shooting another feature in August/Sept, an ensemble piece, in HD, on a shoestring, so if you are interested, find me, call me, grab me, and we can talk. I am in the process of writing the sceneario as they used to say.
And also, if you are a man/women with some money, and would be interested in a more high profile film, i am finishing up a new feature script. Established or ambitious up and comer actors/actress’s would be very pleased to take a look at this script, and so would the money folks.
Also, shooting a short on 35mm from a script i wrote late 07 or early 08.
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