ArcLight Presents Slamdance Cinema Club

  • How They Did It

How They Did It: Creating the Showstopping "Living Mandala" Shot in Neptune With Composites

One idea that was very important early on in our film Neptune was the creation of a living mandala. Though…

7 years ago
  • Acting

Quick Change Artist: Costume is the Key to Accessing and Discarding Character, Says the Star of Hunky Dory

“Clothes make the man.” — Mark Twain When director Michael Curtis Johnson and I decided to make Hunky Dory, we…

7 years ago
  • How They Did It

How They Did It: The Radical Sound Design of Driftwood, Shot Without a Sound Crew

Close your eyes and concentrate on the sounds around you: the humming of the refrigerator, footsteps from the floor above,…

8 years ago
  • Directing

The Weird, Grey Area: How to Find Tonal Balance in a Dramedy, by the Writer-Director of MAD

"And that's really the thing, can you make people emotional, make people feel something, maybe even have tears... and get…

8 years ago
  • How They Did It

Guerrilla in the Arboretum: The Covert Shooting of a Scene From Chemical Cut

This is a recollection of a certain Thursday in May of 2014. The Chemical Cut crew and I, the DP,…

8 years ago
  • How They Did It

Perfection is Not a Real Goal: How Buddymoon Got Shot (in 10 Days and Without a Script)

"Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” It sounds almost defeatist the first time you hear it, but this…

8 years ago
  • Documentary

Fur Example: Director Dominic Rodriguez Confronts His Own Furry Fandom in Fursonas

When I started working on the documentary feature Fursonas, I had no idea what I was getting into. Actually, I’m…

8 years ago
  • Directing
  • Festivals

Slamdance 2016: Watch Interviews with Adam Rifkin, Penn and Teller from Director’s Cut

Director's Cut, Adam Rifkin and Penn Jillette's warped comedy about obsession and moviemaking, opened the 22nd Slamdance Film Festival on…

8 years ago
  • Festivals

Fessenden on Festivals: Indie Horror’s Larry Fessenden Reflects on the Fests that Shaped His Career

Ah, film festivals, the gateway to distribution for an independent film. When I was starting out in the late '80s…

9 years ago
  • Documentary

Family, Farming and Fostering Trust: Director Morgan Schmidt-Feng on Making On Her Own

On Her Own began as a project to satisfy my personal curiosity about farm life. Farming was a topic I…

9 years ago
  • Documentary

Dancing with Death: How the Director of Huntington’s Dance Documented His Own Suicide Attempt

It takes a braver-than-usual moviemaker to chronicle how an incurable disease has ravaged generations of his family—much less put his…

9 years ago
  • Movie News

Exclusive: ArcLight Presents Slamdance Cinema Club Unveils June, July and August Titles (plus, a Ticket Giveaway!)

ArcLight Presents Slamdance Cinema Club, the recently minted collaboration between Arclight Cinemas and the Slamdance Film Festival, today announced their…

9 years ago