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Moderngrumble Teaser Wrap!

Posted March 16, 2012


                       *Jeff Dylan Graham as 'Boy' and Nancy Pop as 'Annie' in Moderngrumble.
  
         As of last Friday March 9th the Moderngrumble Teaser Trailer is wrapped. After two years of talking about it and planning we can finally close that chapter and set…

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Moderngrumble: A Crowdfunding Post-Op

Posted January 2, 2012

Well, we've had a couple of days to review our crowdfunding campaign and consider a good many factors as to why we raised what we did and why we did not manage to secure the full 10k. But first here are the final numbers from our Indiegogo page, Website, and Facebook Fan page:

Indiegogo Stats:

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Sculpting in Time

Posted December 31, 2011

I’m a film school drop-out. There are many reasons for this but mostly I blame my first screening of Godard’s Weekend and Tarkovsky’s book Sculpting in Time. With Godard’s film it was the realization that everything had already been done and with Tarkovsky’s book it was the re-affirmation of…

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The Art of Squashing Heads

Posted December 29, 2011

I met Marcus Koch at the Texas Frightmare Weekend in Dallas, Texas about two years ago. He was there supporting the film ‘Sweatshop’ a low budget Texas shot slasher set at an all night rave. I was attending a screening packed with fellow horror junkies on a Friday night. Having drifted into the s…

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Day 9: Casting Moderngrumble

Posted December 24, 2011

When I first started writing Moderngrumble, the main character, ‘Boy’ was envisioned as an ethereal creature, a hairless, albino with a mouth stained gray/black with ash, chapped, raw, pursed lips, and glowing green eyes. He was also meant to have a mouth and jaw that could unhinge like that of a Py…

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Day 10: Location Scouting in the Ozarks Part II

Posted December 22, 2011
If you’ve been following these entries you read yesterday about the discovery of the Tottey House, a hundred year old house filled to the brim with unique period furniture and pop culture artifacts that unfortunately has a logging road running through the front yard. So, the perfect location inside …

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Day 11: Location Scouting in the Ozarks

Posted December 21, 2011
When writing a script for a film you plan on shooting, a film you know will be made, comparatively, on the cheap you would be wise to write something low on location changes and utilizing locations that provide: 1) ease of access 2) nearby washroom facilities for cast and crew 3) areas with low visi…

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Day 12: Ambiguity, Tone and the Genre Film

Posted December 20, 2011

The genre film, whether film noir or slasher, sci-fi or western, can hardly be called ambiguous. In fact, a chief characteristic of genre films is their easily identifiable features; a set of signifiers that define a certain style of film, i.e. chiaroscuro lighting, femme fatales and the anti-heroes…

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15 days left: A Crowdfunding Journey

Posted December 16, 2011

15 days left in our bid for crowdfunding glory finds us in a very grateful mood. Not for money but the friends, fans and connections we have made in the last two weeks. Stop by and visit us at MUBI and read about for yourself.

Friends & Fans

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Janene: Anita Goodman - A Portrait

Posted December 15, 2011

A fantastic short portrait of a soul longing for connection and finding . . . well watch and find out.

Janene: Anita Goodman by Moderngrumble's Director of Photography Joriah Goad.

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MUBI starts it's support of Moderngrumble

Posted December 15, 2011

Movie and social networking site, Mubi steps up to offer it's hand in support of the Moderngrumble project. Please take a moment to check out the link and browse the site if you're not already familiar. We will be bringing you new content everyday for the rest of the campaign through this alchemical…

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the auteurs

Posted April 2, 2010

For those of you who don't know already and are interested in seeing the kind of abstract stuff I usually turn out when left alone to my own devices follow these links shelter and thelessermajesty . The Auteurs is a very cool online cinematheque/social networking site affiliated with that bastion …

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