So Sundance ended over a month ago.

I had a lot of fun there, but I ended up coming home with a load of stuff I don’t need.

The festival has these notorious gifting rooms where celebrities go to take stuff for free. These rooms are closed to mortals, like short filmmakers, but I lied my way into one with Bastien and got given a bunch of stuff (I wanted to bring back more, but I really hate the whole ed hardy trend, which 90% of the designer stuff there copied from).

I’m selling everything on e-bay (all sold out  now- thanks all!), all proceeds go to my next short film. I’ll include a few things from other festivals which is brand new and which I don’t need. Amongst the things from sundance is a $300 silver dogtag, I guess that marketer will be pissed off if they find out.

My ebay listing - http://bit.ly/dor-ebay

This was a fun project. The Berlinale Talent Campus is an event set up by the Berlin Film Festival to give a selected few hundered people a chance to meet other people working in the film industry. Some of you will remember I did a talk there last year with Mike Snow.

Part of the campus is to give 3 up-and-coming composers access to a full orchestra, which I gather costs a bomb. They had usually used sponsored video from Volkswagen but this year wanted something else – so they used a cut down version of Please Say Something. The mentor was Alexandre Desplat, who scored a slew of films like Benjamin’s Buttons, Fantastic Fox and The Gost writer. I very much to a back seat to the proceedings – but it was really amazing hearing a 60 piece orchestra over my no budget animation.

Here is a badly recorded clip of the winning score . I guess I will put the properly mixed scores on the next DVD, they are really great.

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Hey!

A bit last minute – I’m doing a little screening & talk at Pixar on Friday. West screening room 12-1 pm. Big thanks to the talented Ricky Nierva for organizing this.

www.pixar.com

Just a quick note to say I’m off to Sundance Film Festival on Thursday, if any of you will be there drop me a line! Afterwards I’ll be visiting San Francisco & LA for a few days. Never been to that part of the world, my expectation is more less shaped by this video.

Here are the screenings of my film at the festival. That link once again. Hope to see you there!

I hope you all have a great year!

Here is a little video card Fons & I made the other night.

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Made in one take on my little slow motion camera. The firework was a cheap indoor thing I bought in the supermarket, we poured flour on it, lit it and I spilled the cards while Fons blew the bubbles. The flame explosion was a total accident.

My friend Rob Seidel is curating this show in Seoul with some of my work, if you’re there check it out!

Date:  2009.11.01 – 2009.11.30
Venue: COMO (SKT-Tower, Seoul) and Open Theatre (Tomorrow City
Echo Plaza, Incheon)
Entrance Fee: free
Organization: art center nabi, SK Telecom
Program Partner: Goethe-Institute Seoul, Robert Seidel

Artists: Julian Rosefeldt, Yves Netzhammer, Carsten Nicolai,
Bjørn Melhus, Zeitguised, Philipp Hirsch, David OReilly, Max
Hattler, Volker Schreiner, Daniel Burkhardt, Christiane Wöhler,
Julia Oschatz, Thorsten Fleisch, Astrid Rieger, Niklas Goldbach,
Barbara Hlali, Timo Katz, Robert Seidel and Jan Verbeek

The programme “Dreaming with Open Eyes” shows 19 different
positions of artists mostly working in Germany. Their short
films are little poems with a dream-like quality that is freed
from our everyday life. They are arranged like the stages of
an ambivalent dream: oscillating between an infantile playfulness,
the strength of a heterotopic, repetitive architecture,
dreamscapes embedded in a romanticized nature or nightmarish
states showing the collapse of humanity and science. And each of
these very unique moments holds the promise to be watched again,
while a dream is lost in its pure linearity after we wake up…

Detailed Information:
http://www.nabi.or.kr/english/project/coming_read.nab?list_num=1&idx=311&
http://www.robertseidel.com