Bombay Beach is a film set apart. Where most documentaries show us events as they really happened, give us facts and carefully sign-posted opinion, Bombay Beach weaves fact with imagination, pure observation with choreographed dance, reality with dreams. And in doing so finds a truth much greater than simple fact…
Or at least of those things, jaded and happy on the 22nd December, that we could remember…
A is for avaaz – giving the good people, the millions of ordinary people, a real voice. A great thing. www.avaaz.org
B is for Barry the Barber – a Geordie in Spitalfields via New York, great haircuts & beard trimming, good chat, good vibes. www.barrythebarber.com
C is for Christmas, still wonderful, longed for, magic, restful and festive in the right measure…
A small film, by our very good friends Muir and Osborne. Knitted, filmed, edited and composed by Muir in celebration of their new book Best in Show: Knit Your Own Cat. A worthy pastime if ever there was one.
Home-made Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.
A home-made journey into space. Courtesy of Brooklynite father, Luke Geissbuhler, and his seven-year-old son, Max. The rest is best left to them…
A year-or-so ago Toast was approached by a film producer asking whether we’d lend his cash-strapped film some clothes. This happens often-enough – films look to companies to help them out in return for a credit, a little extra promotion, and we try to oblige as much as we can. But this particular film went by the name of Barafundle Bay and as such it piqued our interest – the real Barafundle Bay is a beautiful, secluded (though by no means always empty) beach on the Pembrokeshire coast, an hour-or-so drive from home and a favourite spot. It is beaten by the wind and blanketed in grey at times, boasts a tropical-blue sea and white sand at others…
Calvino’s book Invisible Cities imagines a conversation between a tired, aged but powerful Kublai Khan and the explorer Marco Polo as Polo describes those cities in his empire that Khan will never reach. Though the cities described are fantastical, unreal and metaphorical, many speculate that each is a comment on that city of cities, Venice…
