“Current (Reprise)” European Premiere at Kassel Dokfest
Current (Reprise) will have its European premiere at the Kassel Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest in Germany. Screening at 11:15am on Nov. 10, in the Kurzfilm-Programm: Großes BALi (KulturBahnhof) in the group titled "Aus dem Ort gefallen" (Fallen Out of Place). Full program here.
Doylestudio at Beacon Open Studios
Three groups of work were featured in photographs, on an LCD screen slide show, and on a looped video monitor with custom stand. The projects were shot during a ticker tape parade in downtown NYC, during a hurricane at Kennedy Space Center, and of architectural oddities in rural Greece.
"Boundary" and an LCD screen featuring another image from Greece, an untitled photograph of an empty house.
"Understory", "Launch bunker (Ophelia gathering)", and a cube monitor with video on a loop, here featuring the music video "Our Lady of Palermo".
Video monitor and custom stand, here featuring "Current (Reprise)".
Doylestudio ready for Beacon Open Studios
Photos are hung, video is playing, wine and brownies are on the way... looking forward to seeing you at the studio this weekend.
“Current (Reprise)” screens in Sydney
"Current (Reprise)" will screen in "Down the Rabbit Hole: Film Underground", to be presented at the Verge Arts Festival, University of Sydney, Australia on Sept. 7, 2011.
MUBI Garage: Current (Reprise) named Best of 2011 Tribeca Shorts!
MUBI Garage names "Current (Reprise)" Best of the Fest: Tribeca Film Festival 2011 Shorts!
Tribeca’s Experimental Filmmakers at Director’s Brunch
Brendon Kingsbury, Brian Doyle, Charles Lim, curator Jon Gartenburg, Marie Losier, and Melissa Friedling at Tribeca's Director's Brunch at City Hall Restaurant.
(April 25, 2011 - Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images North America)
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/WdJ4aM6_oEn/Director+Brunch+2011+Tribeca+Film+Festival/CU5ODQV4iE6
Twitchfilm.com: “Current (Reprise)” is “Experimental filmmaking at its most otherworldly yet strikingly real.”
TRIBECA 2011: SHORT FILM ROUND-UP 1
by Ben Umstead, April 22, 2011 1:45 PM
Despite being in the online age of video, it seems the short film is still somewhat neglected when it comes to a proper outlet, so today I'll be shining the spotlight on a handful of the 60 short films playing at this year's Tribeca, many of them from some fine regional talents. Selection films will also be available to watch online through Tribeca's website...
Like alien jellyfish tendrils, streams of paper cling to trees and lampposts in Current (Reprise). This is the aftermath of New York's first ticker tape parade post 9/11. Atmospheric and downright unsettling, Brian Doyle films the familiar setting of Lower Manhattan through the eyes of distrust and a cacophony of technological blips and beeps. For as he films the quiet storm of ticker tape gathering, swirling in the streets, on the sidewalks and in the gutters, electronic eyes from above watch him. Experimental filmmaking at its most otherworldly yet strikingly real...
IndependentFilm.com features Brian Doyle at Tribeca Film Festival
2011 Tribeca Film Festival IndependentFilm.com coverage begins
Today we meet Indie Director Brian Doyle at the Cadillac Tribeca Press Lounge.
By Corey Boutilier
Executive Director, IndependentFilm.com
Published Apr 23, 2011
IndependentFilm.com was invited by the Tribeca Film Festival to their Filmmaker meet and greet party...
Brian Doyle, attending filmmaker with coresponding festival lanyard, shot a Super8 short film that was accepted into this years shorts program. It is entitled "current (reprise)". There is no dialogue, but a very beautiful I might add, montage of paper floating around Wall Street. The subtitle of the film is "Survive the ticker tape tempest"...
Brian Doyle at the Tribeca Press Lounge on Zimbio
(April 21, 2011 - Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images North America)
Tribeca Buzz: A Talk with Current (Reprise)’s Brian Doyle
Published on April 18, 2011
by Mary Iannone
“My interest in ticker tape parades stems from their creation of some unique phenomena. The debris can be seen as a kind of proxy for information itself. In this digital age, all this debris floating in the air, caught in trees, piled in gutters, becomes like waves and gusts of memory and nostalgia itself.”
In late 2000, Brian Doyle prepared for the inevitable ticker tape parade that would follow either outcome of the Yankees versus Mets World Series match up. But his primary interest in the festivities was as a filmmaker. The result was Current, a look at the stormy aftermath of the parade. The atmosphere “seems like an unwitting dress rehearsal or fantasy of destruction, a glimpse of the future that was to come”. Just four months after Current’s completion, 9/11 recreated the desolate streets carefully simulated in the film. The second event came from unthinkable destruction; the first, eerily similar, came from joyful celebration.
Eight years later, another cinematic opportunity suddenly presented itself to Doyle. “I became interested in encapsulating 9/11 in this kind of bubble, book-ended by the storms of information,” Doyle says. “Current (Reprise) was filmed during the Giants’ Super Bowl victory parade. The Giants were underdogs that year, so I was not expecting a parade at all. But when they won, I realized a parade was imminent and I quickly dreamed up this idea. I wondered what it would be like to attempt a sequel to a documentary. The ongoing, recurring nature of ticker tape parades lent itself to this somewhat unique idea. Would this film change as well? What would the separation of nearly 10 years yield?”