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If all the technology has joined up than this rather more general blog will be post on the page for my film Love Takes which will be getting it's Montana Premiere in February 17th at the historic Wilma theatre.

Love Takes is the first 'proper' film that I ever made after years of skulking around galleries and tinkering with large projections. By proper I mean that you can watch it in a cinema and it has a beginning and an end, basic criteria I know but other work I had made prior to this was much more experimental or non linear and much more in the art camp.

I really like this film, shooting it on my own and with my partner and DOP Steven Sheil was very liberating; It made me feel that film-making was an exciting medium and I could just go out with my wee mini dv camera, be with people and maybe capture something that could be moving or give a glimmer into somone else's life.



I've continued this love of portraiture and trying to capture this 'intimate something' in my two subsequent projects. 60 minute Teenland for BBC4 which showed at Big Sky in 2006 and my first feature "Goth Cruise" for IFC, which is as we speak almost, almost complete and heading for post production.

It's been a terrifyingly quick jump from 10 minutes in 2003 with Love Takes, 60 mins in 2006 with Teenland and 80 minutes in 2008 with Goth Cruise but I hope there's a line that runs through all the work holding it together. It's just the telling is bigger!

I'm still umming and aahing as to whether to make the 3 flights out to Missoula from the UK. My visit in 2007 was amazing, my first trip to the States and like a breath of fresh air, literally. I saw amazing films, met great people and got to walk in the steps of David Lynch (his home town) and couldn't help but see Twin peaks everywhere I looked. The post schedule on Goth Cruise make mean that it is impossible and if this is the case I will have to cross everything that this film makes it out as I really want to go to Big Sky again.

Watch this space.

posted by Jeanie Saturday, January 26, 2008

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