Posts by Joe Wylie
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can we get to see The Nightwachman?
Thanks for your interest Steven. There was a crummy copy on YouTube until recently from when it screened on MTV, but it's since been removed for copyright reasons beyond my control. Equal credit for that fraught little film should go to the hugely talented John Robertson, animator & designer extraordinaire.
In the meantime, as a more contemporary substitute, I've sent you a picture of a skateboard.
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I've been skillfully ignoring Joe's much earlier comment in a thread waaay downline, that he'd been a USA-based animator...
Thanks Islander, but if I've given the impression that I've ever been USA-based it's been ambiguity on my part. While I've worked with more Americans than I can count, it's all been in Oz, NZ & SE Asia.
BTW, Hayao Miyazaki is better than god.
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That's very nice of you Kerry. Not much animation lately. Ian Dalziel got me a gig painting skateboards which keeps me surprisingly busy, though people tend to hang them on their walls rather than skate on them.
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. . . found a rare brom had a pup which was really cool . . .
Would that be broom or bromeliad? Whatever, congratulations.
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I can see the idea behind producer-based funding from the NZFC. If you are doling out public money and have to give reports to your political masters about where that money went, you'd want to entrust the dosh to a person who is used to controlling the money side of film-making.
I think the commission was afraid that the creatives might just take the money and scurry off to do cool stuff. Their reports would read something like "Oh, yeah, money... right... yeah, we spent some getting some cool shots of sunsets off the Coromandel. Didn't end up using it but it looked fabulous!"
Try tabling that before the Minister of Arts.When the NZFC-backed short film you directed is picked for a foreign festival some years after its completion, and the first you hear about it is that the producer will be travelling in your place, it does give cause to wonder if the whole producer-driven thing hasn't got a little out of hand.
As it happened, the Commission were pretty comfortable with a producer giving the speech traditionally made by a guest director on the film's aesthetic aspects. Rather than treat international festivals as an opportunity for filmmakers to develop their skills, they've been treated as junkets. When bureaucrats begin appointing themselves as producers they tend to apply the Sir Humphrey principle of protecting their own.
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What next, perhaps we can have David Henderson head a review of IRD, Laurie Mains do Graham Henry's performance review, Rodney Hide review Auckland governance....actually...
Bit of a stretchy metaphor, surely? For example, if Rodney Hide had a track record as Auckland's most successful mayor ever, it might be a fair parallel for Jackson's appointment.
I'm quite surprised at the lukewarm response to Peter Jackson's appointment on here. He may be Mr International Film Whizz now, but he did make "Heavenly Creatures" and "Forgotten Silver", two very NZ films.
Yeah, it seems awfully picky to quibble about Jackson's NZ-ness. or lack of. His appointment is a bold and possibly risky move, made necessary by years of weak minsterial oversight of the NZFC. While I'm no fan of Deborah Coddington, she was pretty much a lone voice in calling attention to the ludicrous situation of former Commission head bureaucrat Ruth Harley appointing herself as a producer on an NZFC project. While Jackson no doubt brings a certain self-interest to his role, at least he's an auteur of proven talent.
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Geoff Lealand:
The Commission fills the gap for the things he doesn't do.
In principle, but it's hardly been the case oer the past decade.
3410:Oh, and short films don't count.
Right. Shunted over to Creative NZ as part of the NZFC think big approach of the past decade. Will be interesting to see if Jackson addresses this.
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. . . bordered by safety rails/fences to stop party folk falling off . . .
Party folk, as in aged paid-up CitRats?
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But is Roger Douglas
I think it was Denis Welch who once described "Sir's" moustache as bristling authoritatively and sending positive signals to the market. All gone now. But dugless? As the stern daddy counterpart to Lange's all-nurturing archetype, quite probably.
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Great story, or intro thereto, as was the one about the Woodville earthquake & the manuka clothesprop. Got any more?