Hackney-based filmmakers Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull are this week’s guest posters. After a background in making short films, music videos, art installations and documentaries they directed their debut feature documentary Isolation in 2009 and have recently finished the latest music video for Wild Beasts, We Still Got The Taste Dancin’ On Our Tongues. An exciting duo they are definitely worth keeping an eye out for.
Isolation premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival. The critically acclaimed documentary toured the international festival circuit and Luke performed a live version of the soundtrack at two sell-out shows at legendary venue Roundhouse in Camden.
Joe: Editing a Four Tet live video shoot and collected visuals and research for our new feature film, we we hope to film this year.
Luke: Editing an amazing show by Four Tet. Warm embraces and shouting at each other. Writing a soundtrack for our new film.
Joe: Make little films that nobody sees.
Luke: Well my Dad does all our accounts, and from that information, he thinks we eat a lot of bagels, drink in crap pubs, makes a few films and little money. Think they were both confused at first but now understand what we do.
Joe: Handsome, very striking.
Luke: A good-looking monkey, I think Joe looks like a friendly bull.
Joe: Eyes
Luke: Sight, the power of hearing a very close second…
Joe: I did not realise David Blunket was blind until about a year ago.
Luke: I am actually very tall.
Joe: Not really… Although we did study Ken Loaches ‘Kes’ for GCSE English which I guess had some kind of impact.
Luke: Artistically no, at school they said I was rubbish at art, but we read ‘Lord of the Flies’ and I learned how to develop photos and that stayed with me.
Joe: Many words but the simplest word is probably Wednesday.
Luke: Dyslexia. Which I reckon should be really easy to spell (for obvious reasons) but it’s not.
Joe: I once saw a flock of parrots flying through Brockwall Park (London) maybe they live in South London and nobody knows?
Luke: It’s estimated that over half of Western Europe will be over the age of 50 by 2030. Can I also say that Joe’s ‘fact’ isn’t a fact at all, more of an anecdote, and considering Joe thought unicorns existed I wouldn’t take his view of the animal kingdom seriously.
Joe: To make a feature length piece of fiction.
Luke: Many many exciting and brilliant things…
Joe: There isn’t one.
Luke: Work in a zoo.
This an amazing film, made in Senegal in 1973 by African filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty. It has a strange rhythm to the editing, and the montage of images is beautiful. You can watch the film on The Auteurs site for free, it has the most delicate sex scene ever, sorry Paul Verhoeven…
Three notes lasting for a year and a half, great. The composition will end in 2639, shame we won’t be able to witness the finale…
Legendary writer Raymond Carver took small moments in American society and crystalised them into pure poetry. Listen to one of his readings (of his poetry) here.
Our filmmaker friend Damien who runs Close Up on Brick Lane said “there are filmmakers and then there is Andrei Tarkovsky” which is kind of true. Close Up are screening a series of his films. Watch the masterpiece Solaris tonight.
We saw an exhibition by Danish photographer Jacob Holdt at Photographers gallery in London. With just 40 dollars in his pocket he toured America in 1970’s, documenting both spectrums of American society. His iconic images always create a real sense of empathy.
