- An intriguing documentary about an experimental art project that connected people all over the world, 1000 Journals traces the artist named "Someguy" as he sends 1000 empty Journals into the world to be filled and returned to him. The idea catches a lot of people's attention over a website and inspires people and the doc shows how people seek a physical and spiritual connection in a world dominated by technology. A scrapbook/journal becomes an object of desire and imagination making for a touching film that will resonate and encompasses everyone, especially those who participated in the project. I met with Andrea Kreuzhage at the Cinema Lounge for this interview.Andrea KreuzhageYama Rahimi: Tell me about your background?Andrea Kreuzhage: My background is in the world of theater and stage directing but in Europe it became a business. Then I went with a partner in the international market to buy and sell films.
- 11/14/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
- The 2007 AFI Fest ended with the screening of Love in the Time of Cholera and the announcement of this year's winners with the politically correct choice of Munyurangabo, an uneven drama set in Rwanda by a Korean-American director was a surprise given the strong line up this year. The tie between Operation Filmmaker and Afghan Muscles was justified, both were evocative and timely, dealing with an Iraqi film student and the other about Afghan body builders. Winners pictured above are: From left to Right: Jenny Lund (Munyurangabo), Nash Edgerton (Spider), Lauren Greenfield (Kids + Money), Jeffrey Schwarz (Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story), Andreas Mol Dalsgaard (Afghan Muscles), Micheal Addis (Heckler). The line up was one of the strongest in years including many films from Cannes (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Persepolis, Silent Light, Jellyfish, Caramel, Secret Sunshine and others) and Berlin (Irina Palm, The
- 11/13/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
AFI Fest
Andrea-k Prods.
Back in summer 2000, a San Francisco graphic artist known professionally as Someguy sent the first batch of 1,000 blank journals out, literally, into the world.
Their curious trek is traced in an intriguing documentary by Andrea Kreuzhage, 1000 Journals, and what the title might lack in inventiveness it more than makes up for with what it reveals between those well-traveled covers. It screens this weekend at AFI Fest.
The film is destined for festival play and possible theatrical life if its release could be tied in with a traveling exhibition of some of those resourcefully filled journals.
Although the 1000 Journals Project included a Web site so that participants could place orders for copies or upload scans of their doodles, prose and other contributions to the received journals, the first copy didn't find its way back into Someguy's hands until September 2003.
The whereabouts of those other 999 journals forms the basis of Kreuzhage's film, and her quest takes her around the world, making stops in Toronto; Amsterdam; Singapore; Melbourne, Australia; Marseilles, France; and Zagreb, Croatia.
While some of the stories she discovered that accompanied the books' travels could probably fill their own journals, for the most part they end up paling in comparison to the remarkable contents of those copies that would ultimately resurface.
Crammed with everything from eye-popping, original artwork and photos to travel itineraries and souvenir tchotchkes to strands of hair and drops of blood, their pages often reflect highly personal expressions of post-Sept. 11 fears and anxieties.
And, as Kreuzhage discovers along the way, maybe the reason so many of those journals have gone AWOL might have less to do with apathy than with the difficulty their transitory owners seem to have in letting go of something tangible that connects them to the rest of the world without requiring an Internet hook-up.
Andrea-k Prods.
Back in summer 2000, a San Francisco graphic artist known professionally as Someguy sent the first batch of 1,000 blank journals out, literally, into the world.
Their curious trek is traced in an intriguing documentary by Andrea Kreuzhage, 1000 Journals, and what the title might lack in inventiveness it more than makes up for with what it reveals between those well-traveled covers. It screens this weekend at AFI Fest.
The film is destined for festival play and possible theatrical life if its release could be tied in with a traveling exhibition of some of those resourcefully filled journals.
Although the 1000 Journals Project included a Web site so that participants could place orders for copies or upload scans of their doodles, prose and other contributions to the received journals, the first copy didn't find its way back into Someguy's hands until September 2003.
The whereabouts of those other 999 journals forms the basis of Kreuzhage's film, and her quest takes her around the world, making stops in Toronto; Amsterdam; Singapore; Melbourne, Australia; Marseilles, France; and Zagreb, Croatia.
While some of the stories she discovered that accompanied the books' travels could probably fill their own journals, for the most part they end up paling in comparison to the remarkable contents of those copies that would ultimately resurface.
Crammed with everything from eye-popping, original artwork and photos to travel itineraries and souvenir tchotchkes to strands of hair and drops of blood, their pages often reflect highly personal expressions of post-Sept. 11 fears and anxieties.
And, as Kreuzhage discovers along the way, maybe the reason so many of those journals have gone AWOL might have less to do with apathy than with the difficulty their transitory owners seem to have in letting go of something tangible that connects them to the rest of the world without requiring an Internet hook-up.
- 11/2/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Two documentaries, including a look at the 20-year history of innovative rap group Public Enemy, will make their world premiere at this year's AFI Fest, set for Nov. 1-11 in Los Angeles.
Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrordome, directed by Robert Patton-Spruill, gives a rare insight into the group and features interviews with musicians Henry Rollins and Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello. Meanwhile, director Andrea Kreuzhage's documentary 1000 Journals focuses on the social/art project initiated by San Francisco-based artist "Someguy".
Two foreign films will make their U.S. debut at the festival: the Canadian drama The Tracey Fragments, directed by Bruce McDonald, and With Your Permission, an entry from Denmark directed by Paprika Steen.
Another 11 films playing at the Toronto International Film Festival also will screen, including 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days directed by Cristian Mungiu; Eran Kolirin's The Band's Visit; Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiter; Gael Garcia Bernal's Deficit; Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; Hao Hsiao-hsien's Flight of the Red Balloon; Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen's Jellyfish; Jason Reitman's Juno; Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Persepolis; Tamara Jenkins' The Savages; and Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine.
Passes are on sale through the festival's Web site at AFI.com, or by phone, (866) AFI-FEST.
Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrordome, directed by Robert Patton-Spruill, gives a rare insight into the group and features interviews with musicians Henry Rollins and Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello. Meanwhile, director Andrea Kreuzhage's documentary 1000 Journals focuses on the social/art project initiated by San Francisco-based artist "Someguy".
Two foreign films will make their U.S. debut at the festival: the Canadian drama The Tracey Fragments, directed by Bruce McDonald, and With Your Permission, an entry from Denmark directed by Paprika Steen.
Another 11 films playing at the Toronto International Film Festival also will screen, including 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days directed by Cristian Mungiu; Eran Kolirin's The Band's Visit; Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiter; Gael Garcia Bernal's Deficit; Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; Hao Hsiao-hsien's Flight of the Red Balloon; Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen's Jellyfish; Jason Reitman's Juno; Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Persepolis; Tamara Jenkins' The Savages; and Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine.
Passes are on sale through the festival's Web site at AFI.com, or by phone, (866) AFI-FEST.
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